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idler

/ahyd-ler/US // ˈaɪd lər //UK // (ˈaɪdlə) //

怠速器,怠工,闲人,怠速

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who passes time in a lazy or unproductive way.
    • : Machinery. an idle gear, wheel, or pulley.
    • : Railroads. an empty freight car placed under the projecting end of a long object carried by the next car, so that the latter can be connected with another part of the train.
    • : Nautical. day man.

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Examples

  • But this alternately joyous and silent idler, this soldier of no regiment and no detail—was he playing a man's part in the war?

  • And meantime there goes the idler, who began life along with them—by your leave, a different picture.

  • The references towards the end are to the illustrations in the pages of The Idler.

  • Beside him sat Robert Bertram, the club idler, slender and languidly elegant.

  • Weel, time gaed by: and the idler sort commenced to think mair lichtly o' that black business.