idle

4,000 workers have been idle for 12 of the first 27 weeks of this year.

4千名工人在今年最初的27个星期中有12个星期无事可干。

But the notion of a sharp division between the working young and the idle old misses a new trend, the growing gap between the skilled and the unskilled.

但是，有工作的年轻人和无所事事的老年人之间的尖锐分歧没有考虑一个新趋势，即有技能的人和无技能的人之间差距的日益扩大。

Some idle teenagers are chatting here.

一些懒散的青年正在这聊天。

Now the machine is lying idle.

现在这台机器正处于闲置状态。

And it is not just individuals: the web makes it easier for companies to rent out spare offices and idle machines, too.

这不仅仅是个人的问题：网络使公司出租多余的办公室和闲置的机器变得更便利了。

In idle moments, he carved wooden figures.

他空闲时就刻木雕。

She had spent many idle hours relaxing on the deck, reading, eating a sandwich when she was hungry and in the evening watching the sky turn from brilliant orange to peach and finally to pale purple, eventually the light becoming dim.

她在甲板上悠闲地度过了好几个小时，看书，饿了就吃个三明治，晚上看着天空由鲜橙色变成桃红色，再变成淡紫色，最后光线渐渐暗淡。