1. stand idle : 袖手旁观；
2. lie idle : 被搁置不用；
形容词
1. Don't listen to idle tales.
别听无用的闲话。
2. Spring makes everyone feel idle.
春天使每个人都觉得懒洋洋的。
3. They didn't want to live idle lives.
他们不想过闲散的生活。
及物动词
1. Instead of working, Jack was idling away his time.
杰克不去工作，虚度着光阴。
不及物动词
1. They idled before the coffee shop.
他们在咖啡馆前闲逛。
1. 空闲的：备份 节点不执行任务,被认为是 空闲的(idle这种配置有时被称为 冷备份(cold standby). 这样的配置需要高度的硬件冗余. 本系列文章关注的重点是冷备份配置. 接管(Takeover)配置:一种更高级的配置,在这种配置中,
1. idle
1. 无事可做的;闲散的
If people who were working are idle, they have no jobs or work.
e.g. Employees have been idle almost a month because of shortages.
由于原料短缺，员工们已将近一个月无事可做。
2. (机器、工厂等)闲置的
If machines or factories are idle, they are not working or being used.
e.g. Now the machine is lying idle.
如今机器闲置着。
e.g. ...factories that had been idle for years.
已经闲置多年的工厂
3. 懒散的;懒惰的;无所事事的
If you say that someone is idle, you disapprove of them because they are not doing anything and you think they should be.
e.g. ...idle bureaucrats who spent the day reading newspapers...
无所事事、整天看报纸的官僚们
e.g. I never met such an idle bunch of workers in all my life!
我一辈子都没碰到过像他们这样吃白饭的工人！
4. idle的近义词
4. 琐碎无聊的;毫无意义的
Idle is used to describe something that you do for no particular reason, often because you have nothing better to do.
e.g. Brian kept up the idle chatter for another five minutes.
布赖恩又絮絮地唠叨了5分钟。
e.g. ...idle curiosity.
无聊的好奇心
5. 徒劳的;徒然的;无用的
If you say that it is idle to do something, you mean that it is not worth doing it, because it will not achieve anything.
e.g. It would be idle to pretend the system is perfect.
假装系统完美无疵是徒劳的。
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6. 虚张声势的;唬人的
You refer to an idle threat or boast when you do not think the person making it will or can do what they say.
e.g. It was more of an idle threat than anything...
那其实是唬人的话。
e.g. His statement isn't merely an idle boast.
他的话不仅仅是虚张声势的自夸。
7. 无所事事;闲混;闲逛
If you idle, you spend time in a lazy way, doing nothing in particular.
e.g. When they reached his house, Scobie idled a bit, finishing his cigarette...
他们到他家后，斯科比闲逛了一会儿，抽完了他的香烟。
e.g. We spent many hours idling in one of the cafes that line three sides of the tiny piazza...
露天小市场的三面都有小餐馆，我们在其中一家餐馆闲呆了很长时间。
8. 使（工厂等）停工
To idle a factory or other place of work means to close it down because there is no work to do or because the workers are on strike.
e.g. ...idled assembly plants.
停业的装配厂
9. idle的解释
9. 使闲散;使无事可做
To idle workers means to stop them working.
e.g. The strike has idled about 55,000 machinists.
罢工使约 55,000 名机械师无事可做。
10. (发动机、车辆)空转
If an engine or vehicle is idling, the engine is running slowly and quietly because it is not in gear, and the vehicle is not moving.
e.g. Beyond a stand of trees a small plane idled...
在树林的那一边,一架小飞机停在那里,发动机在空转。
e.g. Her Daimler limo waits with its engine idling.
她的戴姆勒豪华轿车原地待命,发动机在空转。
相关词组：idle away
1. Capital lays idle, and a prime business opportunity may well slip away.
2. The president said these are by no means idle dreams - as witnessed by the company's growth in the past 13 years in China.
3. An astronomical amount of private capital lies idle because there are few projects suitable for private investment.
4. idle的近义词
4. Machinery normally busy churning out toys for major US toy brands Mattel and Disney now sits idle.
5. idle的意思
5. The smog shrouding Chinese cities this winter seems of little concern to drivers, who continue clogging the roads and spewing out fumes as they idle in traffic jams.
6. It turned out some major engineering and rail maintenance equipment as well as communication facilities remained idle because of poor planning and management.
7. In an effort to dissuade developers, the housing regulator has increased the cost of keeping land idle.
8. idle的意思
8. The proposal to lease millions of hectares of idle cropland in the Far East to foreign agribusinesses has generated some controversy within Russia.
9. Today even those nominated as test or reserve drivers sit idle apart from occasional " straight line " aerodynamic runs and hours in simulators.
10. " While the capacity for many less competitive players lies idle, " Li told China Daily.
noun
1. the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling
e.g. the car engine was running at idle
verb
1. run disconnected or idle
e.g. the engine is idling
Synonym: tick over
2. be idle
exist in a changeless situation
e.g. The old man sat and stagnated on his porch
He slugged in bed all morning
adj
1. idle
1. not in active use
e.g. the machinery sat idle during the strike
idle hands
Synonym: unused
2. not in action or at work
e.g. an idle laborer
idle drifters
the idle rich
an idle mind
3. not having a job
e.g. idle carpenters
jobless transients
many people in the area were out of work
Synonym: jobless out of work
4. not yielding a return
e.g. dead capital
idle funds
Synonym: dead
5. idle的翻译
5. lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
e.g. idle talk
a loose tongue
Synonym: loose
6. silly or trivial
e.g. idle pleasure
light banter
light idle chatter
Synonym: light
7. without a basis in reason or fact
e.g. baseless gossip
the allegations proved groundless
idle fears
unfounded suspicions
unwarranted jealousy
Synonym: baseless groundless unfounded unwarranted wild