1. 1怠惰、懶散(名詞;書面)

    Slothfulness is the state of being : not wanting to move, work, or try. It is a noun, and a rather formal, old-fashioned one. Teachers, preachers, and books use it; friends almost never say “my slothfulness” when they mean they stayed in bed. It names the habit or the quality, not one lazy afternoon. In older moral writing it is treated as a fault of character, the same sloth as the old “deadly sin,” not only a mood. Though actually, English already has easier words — , idleness — and those are what most people use. Use this one when you are reading older prose, or when you want the heavy, almost moral tone. It is still not slovenliness: that word is about mess and not taking care, not about sitting still.

組成From slothful + -ness (an old English ending that turns an adjective into “the state of being that way”).

同家族的字

  • slothfulthe adjective this noun is built from
  • sloththe laziness, and the slow animal
  • slowsloth grew from slow plus an old noun ending

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

slothfulnessnoun

  • 1

    The state or quality of being slothful.

  • 2

    rareThe result or product of being slothful.

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