idle 

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单词释义
adj.懈怠的,懒惰的,闲置的,没有工作的,闲散的,漫无目的的,空闲的
v.混时间,闲荡,无所事事,空转,挂空挡,未熄火,(尤指暂时地)关闭工厂,使(工人)闲着
词根词缀记忆/谐音联想记忆 补充/纠错
谐音“挨到” → 一群懒散的人挨到了一起 → i …………
其他怎么记补充/纠错
谐音记忆爱豆 → 爱豆都是“无所事事”的
词性拓展记忆 / 词形拓展记忆
原形:idle第三人称单数:idles比较级:idler最高级:idlest过去式:idled过去分词:idled现在分词:idling
对比记忆 / 类比记忆 / 形近词记忆
idle / addle / ladle / sidle
idle a.空闲的,闲置的;懒散的 v.空费,虚度
addle v. 使腐坏;使昏乱
ladle n.长柄杓;钢铁水包v.用长柄勺舀;把……倒入
sidle v. (偷偷地)侧身而行 …………
辨析记忆
idle / lazy
这两个形容词均有“闲散,懒惰”之意。
idle → 通常指不忙,无事可干,一般不含应责备之意。
lazy → 指好逸恶劳,贪闲偷懒,或不愿学习或工作等,常含应受责备之意。
词组和短语补充/纠错
idle away 无所事事
idle money 闲置资金
idle around 闲置,闲置
idle away time 闲置时间
sit idle 闲置,闲置
absorb idle fund 吸收闲置资金
stand idle 闲置,闲置
idle away one's youth 消磨青春
单词例句
As the saying goes, "An idle youth, an idle age."
俗话说,“少壮不努力,老大徒伤悲”
Many people idle away the hours playing on phone.
很多人把时间浪费在玩手机上。
She is too idle to do anything.
她太懈怠了,什么也不干。
Adapted to local conditions, the province also promotes photovoltaic construction by utilizing resources such as enterprise factories, rural residences and idle ponds with the aim to realize the coordinated development of photovoltaic power generation, new energy, animal husbandry, and leisure and entertainment.
该省还因地制宜,利用企业工厂、农村住宅和闲置池塘等资源,推进光伏建设,实现光伏发电、新能源、畜牧业和休闲娱乐的协调发展。
The project utilizes the company's idle rooftop area to install photovoltaic components, with an annual electricity generation of around 3.5 million kilowatt-hours, which can meet its own consumption and save approximately 4.5 million yuan ($620,217)xa0in electricity costs annually.
该项目利用该公司闲置的屋顶区域安装光伏组件,年发电量约为350万千瓦时,可以满足其自身消耗,每年可节省约450万元人民币(620217美元)的电力成本。
For instance, if an idle person were given some cows and sheep, they might chose to sell or eat them, which is not a sustainable way to help villagers have a better life in the long term," Guo said.
例如,如果给一个游手好闲的人一些牛和羊,他们可能会选择卖掉或吃掉它们,从长远来看,这不是帮助村民过上更好生活的可持续方式,”郭说。
"Amid Washington's restrictions, China's semiconductor industry will not sit idle.
“在华盛顿的限制下,中国的半导体产业不会坐视不管。
At Lenovo's manufacturing base in Hefei, Anhui Province, where one out of every eight PCs sold globally is made, the company deploys a system to improve production efficiency and reduce idle time, saving more than 2,696 MWh of electricity annually.
在联想位于安徽合肥的制造基地,全球销售的每八台电脑中就有一台是在这里生产的,该公司部署了一个系统来提高生产效率和减少闲置时间,每年节省2696兆瓦时以上的电力。
The next day, aware of the labor shortage in Fuzhou, Fujian province, US-based retail giant Walmart started to offer jobs to idle hands because of the epidemic.
I believe it offers a cost-efficient way to keep idle resources in circulation, even monetize them, and caters to females' need for fine goods.
The outstanding interbank WMPs declined 62.57 percent year-on-year to 1.22 trillion yuan, demonstrating a significant reduction in idle funds, said a report co-issued by China Banking Association and China's Banking Sector Wealth Management Registration and Trusteeship Center on March 29.
The company, located in Kunming, the capital of Southwest China's Yunnan province, however, ran into trouble over the past several years because sales of heavy mechanical products plummeted, leaving several workshops idle.
To make better use of solar power, avoid power-cuts and wastage of energy, the National Energy Administration issued a statement last year saying it planned to allocate its annual solar power installation quotas based on a review of idle rates and other conditions across China.
The new clean-energy quota system would help identify provincial targets, and ease the idle capacity problem by enabling technological evolution of photovoltaic power generation.
The company also had one of the best cash flows and net profit margins among listed Chinese companies, Moutai plans to revitalize its idle funds by entering the finance sector and setting up a financial business entity that involves loans, insurance and asset management.
Yuji township has encouraged its villagers and farmers to make full use of idle and abandoned land by planting gourds since 2022.
Over the past few years, it has effectively activated the idle resources in local villages, and explored innovative ways to develop, increasing the incomes of both the village collectives and the villagers.
Besides, the local branches of the Communist Party of China strengthened their guidance on revitalizing idle homesteads.
The Haoliang Jufeng Party Building Coalition, for example, signs homestead transfer agreements with the farmers to plant Chinese herbs, turning the idle asset into useful capital.
The government in Haowangzhaung town of the county said it fully utilizes over 80 hectares of idle ponds through the mixed farming of lotus root and crayfish, as well as bass and South American prawn farming.
They suggested using the funding to assist local governments in purchasing idle properties and rebuilding them into affordable homes, rather than subsidizing residents in purchasing new homes, which could reignite property price bubbles.
To raise salary-based household incomes, China should also make more use of idle funds sitting in bank deposit accounts.
Deposits of government agencies and public organizations usually come from public budgets, and it is unreasonable to leave a large amount of them idle.
According to Yuan Yibin, Party secretary of Zoucheng, these projects have vitalized 70 idle houses in the village and put 31 hectares of idle land surrounding the village into use.
A similar development model is also being conducted in Dongzhongdu village of Sishui county where partners have utilized 45 idle courtyards and over 16 hectares of idle land around the village to develop a range of facilities, turning the village into a rural slow-living leisure destination that integrates leisure, vacation, field study, shopping and training.
Deflation is often synonymous with economic recession, as there is insufficient overall demand, a large number of idle resources, a rising unemployment rate, a gloomy economic outlook and a continuous decline in prices.
As a number of containers have been lying idle in ports recently, compounded by the continuous decline in export freight rates, people's growing concerns about dim export prospects have been brought to the fore.
The utilization rate of manufacturing capacity in 2022 was 1.9 percentage points lower than that in 2021, reflecting a certain amount of idle capacity in the sector.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, some companies have found themselves in urgent need of crew, while others have had to deal with idle employees.
In fact, the coexistence of "labor shortages" and "idle employees" has not arisen from the pandemic, but rather from a longstanding structural problem in the Chinese job market that could be attributed to the following factors.
China's southern Hainan province has opened an online supermarket providing idle land plots, a significant institutional innovation that aims to invigorate land resources and makes remote transactions and monitoring of land stakes possible for both developers and suppliers, according to local government authorities.
Inefficient and untimely government coordination has led to such problems as investors with projects on hand waiting for land to settle their blueprints, while on the other hand, some land, officially approved by the government or deposited by enterprises yet not fully utilized, remaining "idle and basking in the sun", said Wang.
Officially launched on June 6, the "land supermarket" platform, backed by a replacement mechanism for idle lands, is expected to solve problems and satisfy investors who urgently need land to develop their projects in Hainan, said the official.
The COVID-19 situation is hurting vehicle production in China, with several carmakers and supplier plants standing idle in hard-hit cities.
Compared with last year, the issuance of local government special bonds has slowed this year, because authorities have "normalized" the bond management procedure and extended the timeline of issuance, which can reduce the amount of idle funds if investment projects are not ready, said an official from the Ministry of Finance who sought anonymity.
With the circular economy under consideration, buying and selling idle items, a new type of consumption which is environmentally friendly and fashionable, can help young people improve their quality of life, Hongbulin's founder and CEO Xu Wei said.
In the 2020s, further property rights and reform in residential bases will give birth to a new group of the Chinese middle-income people, which stimulates the use of idle residential bases in rural areas, encourages the two-way flow between urban and rural areas, and creates wealth for 600 million people, thus fostering new urbanization.
Auditors saved more than 220 billion yuan ($34 billion) in public funds that would otherwise be wasted or left idle while auditing more than 60,000 agencies across the country in the first 11 months of last year.
With the development of cross-sector, cross-market comprehensive operation of financial business, China's shadow banking sector saw a rapid rise after 2008, increasing the level of financial leverage, falsely encouraging funds to remain idle within the financial system, and concealing the real situation of banks' asset quality, said the report published on Friday on the WeChat official account of Financial Regulation Research, a Beijing-based monthly journal.
At a time when other companies were still running on idle, the studio received a lucrative order from the property developer Vanke, which was looking to reorganize the allocation of apartment space to take account of customers' health-related concerns, including allowing more room for storing items related to epidemic prevention.
The machine is lying idle in the factory today.
Lyu further said that at present, many oil and gas fields constructed photovoltaic and wind power generation facilities on idle land to meet their demand for electricity, thereby reducing carbon emissions.
The government can look at the idle and inefficient properties nationwide, as they can be changed into long-term rental housing.
The land was idle but he leased it from local farmers and transformed it into a flower farm, helping increase local incomes and support local economic development.
According to iResearch, a leading provider of online audience measurement and consumer insights in China, the value of idle luxury goods in the nation, including valuable secondhand accessories, jewelry, watches, high-end clothing and handbags, reached 2.87 trillion yuan ($392 billion) in 2020, and is expected to stand at 3.9 trillion yuan by 2025.
The scale of the domestic idle luxury goods retail market grew from 16.2 billion yuan in 2016 to 51 billion yuan in 2020, and it is estimated that the market will reach 208 billion yuan in 2025, indicating huge growth potential.
Feng Peikang, general manager of the China Luxury Exhibition Center in Shanghai, said, "The large stock of idle luxury goods has laid a solid foundation for the long-term development of the secondhand luxury industry, which has gradually transformed its method of trading between sellers and buyers from traditional offline exhibitions to livestreaming platforms.
Zhuanzhuan, another online trading platform for used goods in China, has set up operation centers and stores in Beijing; Shenzhen, Guangdong province; Qingdao, Shandong province, and Chengdu, Sichuan province, to promote the recycling and circulation of idle resources, including used mobile phones.
Although able to increase peak-hour supply, expanded capacity may stay idle during off-peak hours, which can be for extended periods.
Although able to increase peak-hour supply, the expanded capacity may stay idle during off-peak hours, which are much longer.
There is a geographical mismatch between large-scale office demand and idle office space.
cn, city-level governments in Guangdong province have plans to regulate and develop rental housing by exploiting idle land and increasing land supply for rental housing development.
Wang Dawei, a professor with the Jilin Agricultural University, said the reform that spreads from the pilot areas to other parts of the country will effectively lead to the use of idle properties in rural areas, which will bring more assets, talent and vitality to rural vitalization.
Jin said the administration also encouraged airlines to help fill the severe shortage in freight capacity by turning their passenger jets which were sitting idle due to the travel restrictions into cargo-only airplanes.
Since February, the CAAC has approved a total of 3,178 additional charter flights commissioned by all-cargo freighters, and 1,873 extra cargo flights carried out by the use of idle passenger aircraft, the CAAC added.
"I usually buy and sell baby accessories and electronic products on Idle Fish," said Yang Xia, a mother of two.
Through Idle Fish, that stuff can reach new owners, while sellers can also get some money.
"Idle Fish, or Xianyu, is a secondhand mobile marketplace spun off from Alibaba's Taobao.
"At present, the number of Idle Fish users has exceeded 200 million, with more than 20 million active users every day.
Idle Fish data showed that, in 2019, the platform recycled 3 metric tons of used clothes, 9.4 million books, 1.2 million mobile phones and 508,500 home appliances.
Donation from Idle Fish even reached impoverished children in Laos.
Technologies like big data, the never-say-die spirit of Chinese entrepreneurs, and their ability to think on their feet made it possible to juggle the workforce, redeploying idle hands in some affected sectors like offline retail and restaurants to businesses like e-commerce that faced severe shortage of manpower, experts said.
In early February, it began hiring from restaurants and retail chains big and small that were riddled with idle or excess manpower as well as a capital crunch.
For current employers such as restaurants and retailers, the arrangement helps keep their idle staff employed elsewhere during the difficult period.
"Many tour guides were forced to idle at home.
With its more than 400 restaurants in about 60 cities all closed and about 20,000 employees idle due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, Jia told Chinaventure.
"Sharing economy has become a key driving force to boost China's economic development, and the sharing model have activated idle resources in the society.
Henan-based Muyuan Foods Co Ltd, a major pig breeder, said in recent months, the company is accelerating the production of some idle sows in the early stage, and a large number of sows will be reserved for the expansion of production next year.
He also said developing business in such markets is good for companies to "reallocate idle capacity, lower costs and gain profit from a large group of potential customers".
com, a leading e-commerce platform specializing in maternal and child products, opened a section for "idle items" on its app home page in 2017 to help facilitate the trading of second-hand items including toys.
For years, the idle rate of new energy power generating capacity in Shanxi has been at less than 2 percent with authorities switching more households from coal to new energy-generated electricity for winter heating and sending more to power the economy in other regions.
Besides, the coal to electricity shift also contributed to local wind and solar power farms having lower idle rates, prompting healthy development of the new energy sector in the province.
Meanwhile, 1.12 percent of the installed wind and solar power generating capacities in the northern province were left idle in 2018, down 4.03 percentage points from the previous year.
The result is that power grids are more willing to buy what would otherwise be idle renewable energy, the staff member said.
Just 1.12 percent of the installed wind and solar power generating capacities in Shanxi province were left idle in 2018, down 4.03 percentage points from the previous year.
Wang, from Roland Berger, said: "Peer-to-peer sharing of idle resources only accounts for a small part of the sharing economy in China.
Zhu said the company included rental housing as one of its core businesses in 2018, saying the source of its apartments was mostly from building projects on land which is restricted to rental-only properties by the government, other firms' idle resources, and personal properties.
COVID-19 is hurting vehicle production in China, with several carmakers and supplier plants standing idle in hard-hit cities, but the country's major industry association has not revised its sales forecast for the year.
Carmakers including Tesla, Volkswagen, Hongqi and Toyota used to produce at least 15,000 vehicles a day in those cities, but plants are now standing idle.
General Motors said the chip shortage will force it to idle three North American factories that make large pickup trucks.
The aggressive expansion of some enterprises led to a large number of idle charging stations.
The UAW contests GM's decision to idle assembly plants in Michigan and Ohio and transmission plants in Ohio and Maryland.
Currently, Chang's car just sits idle in his community because it is cheaper for him to use mobility services to get to and from work and go out, than it is to drive himself.
Chinese automakers' annual production capacity is more than 40 million vehicles, but their actual output is less than 30 million, which means more than 10 million of capacity is in idle.
As cross-border travel has been restricted due to COVID-19, the daily care and safety of the elderly who are left idle in their "empty nests" have become the biggest concern for their overseas children.
In the future, the device room will consume less energy through circumstantial adjustments of the temperature — colder when devices are operating, and warmer when idle.
"Under such circumstances, when there are few orders, workers will become idle and maybe inefficiently utilized.
Comparing the two products, Niu Xinyu, who founded the technology firm in 2016, said CAISA adopts a radically different approach where the computation order is determined by the data streaming network, instead of the instruction execution order, so that the idle time is substantially minimized by cutting the waiting time for instructions.
Performance-based management should be strengthened to prevent funds from remaining idle, Lan added.
Performance-based management should be strengthened to prevent the funds from staying idle, Lan added.
Unborrowed savings from this repayment of long-term debt will result in funds sitting idle in the financial sector, and aggregate demand will spiral downward, thus inducing deflation.
In the first five months, deposits with nonbank financial institutions grew by about 1.5 trillion yuan, 857.9 billion yuan higher than the average amount in the same period from 2017 to 2020, which means idle funds, or money that has not been invested and is, therefore, not earning interest or investment income, still exist in the financial market.
Punitive measures, including retrieving idle funds and cutting additional quotas, will be applied as required.
Internet cafes that use idle computers to mine cryptocurrencies are included in the draft.
Yang Zhiyong, a researcher with the National Academy of Economic Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said some problems in budget management need to be solved, such as the lack of coordination among various budgets, which has led to idle funds.
I invest not just to avoid getting idle but, more importantly, to earn more to save more, in order to fund my post-retirement life, contribute to family needs, and offset the effects of inflation," Mom said.
In my opinion, those threats cannot just be dismissed as idle, but rather be seen as a US ploy aimed at achieving certain outcomes by leveraging perceived advantages.
China has rectified market irregularities, such as multi-layered nesting and idle funds, and has effectively improved the quality of its trust industry to better serve the real economy," Qi said at a news conference in Beijing.
Outstanding interbank WMPs dropped 62.57 percent year-on-year to 1.22 trillion yuan, demonstrating a significant reduction in idle funds, per a report jointly issued by the China Banking Association and the country's Banking Sector Wealth Management Registration and Trusteeship Center on March 29.
The sensor on the bracelet can feel the changes of electric current and identify whether the equipment is started up or shut down, and whether it is idle or in normal operation.
Members of the creditors committees took concerted action to help private firms comb through their debt structure, dispose of idle assets, return to core business and deleverage," she said.
But LinkToken must be obtained as a reward through the sharing of the user's idle bandwidth, storage space, computing power or other resources," said Zhao Zhanling, a legal researcher at China University of Political Science and Law who specializes in intellectual property cases.
"It is true that generally speaking, demand deposits are losing their attractions among individual investors, particularly in big cities and among young investors who are exposed to wide range of options for handling idle cash.
考试真题例句(机器翻译仅供参考)
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六级While college facilities sit idle, they continue to generate maintenance expenses that contribute to the high cost of running a college," he has written.

虽然大学设施闲置,但它们继续产生维护费用,导致大学运营成本高昂,”他写道。

2012年6月阅读原文

四级And it is not just individuals: the web makes it easier for companies to rent out spare offices and idle machines, too

而且不仅仅是个人:网络也让公司更容易出租闲置的办公室和机器

2013年12月阅读原文

六级While college facilities sit idle, they continue to generate maintenance expenses that contribute to the high cost of running a college," he has written

虽然大学设施闲置,但它们继续产生维护费用,导致大学运营成本高昂,”他写道

2012年6月阅读原文

六级23、 It may produce an increasing number of idle youngsters.

二十三、它可能会产生越来越多的游手好闲的年轻人。

2015年6月大学英语六级考试真题(三)

四级And it is not just individuals: the web makes it easier for companies to rent out spare offices and idle machines, too.

不仅仅是个人:网络也让公司更容易出租闲置的办公室和机器。

2013年12月大学英语四级考试真题(第1套)

四级But the notion of a sharp division between the working young and the idle old misses a new trend, the growing gap between the skilled and the unskilled.

但是,工作的年轻人和无所事事的老年人之间的急剧划分的概念忽略了一个新趋势,即技术人员和非技术人员之间的差距越来越大。

2015年6月大学英语四级考试真题(第1套)

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