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

怠速器,怠工,闲人,怠速

Related Words

loafer浪荡子,浪子,浪人,浪客 slacker懒人,懒惰者,懒惰的人,懒鬼 drone嗡嗡声,嗡嗡的声音,嗡嗡声声,嗡嗡嗡 couch potato榻榻米,懒汉,懒人土豆,懒人

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounlounger

Synonyms

drone嗡嗡声,嗡嗡的声音,嗡嗡声声,嗡嗡嗡 loafer浪荡子,浪子,浪人,浪客 slacker懒人,懒惰者,懒惰的人,懒鬼 couch potato榻榻米,懒汉,懒人土豆,懒人 lazy bum懒汉,懒鬼,懒人,懒虫

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.

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