單詞
sluggard
英 ['sl?g?d]
美['sl?ɡ?d]
基本信息
- n. 游手好閑的人；懶鬼；偷懶者
GRE
詞態變化
形容詞:?sluggardly;
中文詞源
sluggard 懶鬼
slug,懶鬼，懶散，-ard,人。
英文詞源
- sluggard (n.)
- late 14c., late 13c. as a surname, "habitually lazy person," from Middle English sluggi "sluggish, indolent," probably from a Scandinavian word such as dialectal Norwegian slugga "be sluggish," dialectal Norwegian sluggje "heavy, slow person," dialectal Swedish slogga "to be slow or sluggish." Adjective sluggy is attested in English from early 13c.
'Tis the voice of a sluggard -- I heard him complain:
As an adjective meaning "sluggish, lazy" from 1590s. Related: Sluggardly.
"You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again."
[Isaac Watts, 1674-1748]
'Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare
"You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
["Lewis Carroll" (Charles L. Dodgson), 1832-1898]
雙語例句
- 1. Seryozhka is a sluggard, a drunkard.
- 謝遼日卡是個懶漢, 酒鬼.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. We make the busy bee look like a lazy creature, the ant like a sluggard.
- 我們令蜜蜂顯得懶惰, 令螞蟻看上去像懶漢.
來自中級百科部分
- 3. I will not, like a sluggard, wear out my youth in idleness at home.
- 我不愿意象個懶人一樣待在家里, 游手好閑地把我的青春消磨掉.
來自辭典例句
- 4. Go to the ant , you sluggard; watch its ways , and be wise.
- 箴言 6:6-11 )懶惰人哪, 你去察看螞蟻的動作就可得智慧.
來自互聯網
- 5. Go to the ant, you sluggard ; consider her ways , and be wise.
- 懶惰人哪, 你去 察看 螞蟻的動作, 就可得智慧.
來自互聯網
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