ket单词打卡学习：KET词汇精讲:idle 形容词含义精学

KET每一年都要更新词汇表，添加一些新单词，同时删除一些不再使用的单词。

根据来自世界各地的学习者使用语言的证据，剑桥学习者语料库收集了超过4400万个英语单词，从而发展了英语词汇量表。英语词汇显示了英语学习者在英语或美式英语中需要知道的最常用的单词和句子。在CEFR在中间，单词表中每个单词或短语的含义已经被分配。A1和B二等级之间。以下是环美亚剑桥英文小编的详细介绍：

KET词汇精解：idle

修饰词的含义精学

没有什么可做的；闲散；If people who were working are idle, they have no jobs or work.

【经典例句】

Employees have been idle almost a month because of shortages.

由于原材料短缺，员工已经快一个月没事干了。

2.(机器、工厂等)闲置；Ifmachines or factories are idle, they are not working or being used.

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【经典例句】

Now the machineis lying idle.现在机器闲置了。

factories that had been idle for years.工厂闲置多年

懒惰；懒惰；无所事事；Ifyou say that someone is idle, you disapprove of them because they are not doing anything and you think they should be.

【经典例句】

idle bureaucrats who spent the day reading newspapers.

整天看报纸的官僚们无所事事。

I never met such an idle bunch of workers in all my life!

我这辈子都没有遇到过像他们这样吃白饭的工人！

四是琐碎无聊；毫无意义；Idle is used to describe something that you do for no particular reason, often because you have nothing better to do.

【经典例句】

Brian kept up the idle chatter for another five minutes.

布赖恩又絮絮叨了5分钟。

徒劳的；徒劳的；无用的；Ifyou say that it is idle to do something, you mean that it is not worth doingit, because it will not achieve anything.

【经典例句】

It would beidle to pretend the system is perfect.

假装系统完美无瑕是徒劳的。

动词意义精学

混合时间；闲散；无所事事：to spend time doing nothing important

以及物动词的用法：

They idled the days away, talking and watching television.

她们每天都在聊天和看电视打发时间。

不及物用词用法：

They idled along by the river (= walked slowly and with no particular purpose).

她们沿着河边闲逛。

混合时间；闲散；无所事事：to spend time doing nothing important

【经典例句】

They idled the days away, talking and watching television.

她们每天都在聊天和看电视打发时间。

知识点扩展

词汇分析

idle:一般指非常闲，无事可做，一般不含应怪之意。

lazy:指懒惰、贪闲、懒惰，或不愿意学习或工作等，常常含有责备之意。