ket单词练习：KET词汇精讲:idle 形容词含义精学

KET词汇表每年都会更新，添加一些新单词，删除一些不再使用的单词。

剑桥学习者语料库根据来自世界各地的学习者使用语言的证据，收集了4400多万个英语单词，英语词汇量表也随之发展起来。英语词汇表显示了英语学习者在英式或美式英语中需要知道的最常见的单词和句子。在CEFR在单词表中，每个单词或短语的含义已经分配到A1和B2之间的等级。下面环美亚剑桥英语小编仔细说说：

KET词汇精解：idle

修饰词意义精学

1.无事可做；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，员工们已经近一个月无事可做。

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。

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

3.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.

整天无所事事、看报纸的官僚们

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

我从来没有见过像他们这样吃白饭的工人！

4.琐碎无聊；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.

布赖恩又唠叨了五分钟。

5.徒劳；徒劳；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。

动词含义精学

1.混时间；闲散；to spend time doing nothing important

及物动词用法：

They idled the days away, talking and watching television.

他们每天都在聊天和看电视。

不及物用词用法：

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

它们沿河漫步。

2.混时间；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.

他们每天都在聊天和看电视。

知识点扩展

词汇分析

idle:一般指很闲，无事可做，一般不含责怪之意。

lazy:指懒惰、懒惰、不愿意学习或工作等，往往包含着应该受到指责的意义。