Word · Frequency #15250
Fully loadedidleness
失业；无业
idleness
此处取“没有工作”之义，而非“懒惰”。
- 1.
The state of being idle; inactivity.
闲散；不活动。
- 2.
having no employment
没有工作；失业
- 3.
The state of being indolent; indolence.
懒惰；懒散。
- 4.
the quality of lacking substance or value
缺乏实质或价值；空洞无物
- 5.
Groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality; vanity; frivolity.
无根据；无价值；琐碎；虚荣；轻浮。
- 6.
the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work
因不愿工作而游手好闲的习性；懒惰
闲散；不活动。；没有工作；失业；懒惰；懒散。；缺乏实质或价值；空洞无物；无根据；无价值；琐碎；虚荣；轻浮。
In use
After the factory closed, he faced months of idleness before finding a new job.
Her idleness was not her choice; she had been looking for work every day.
The government introduced training programs to reduce idleness among young people.
be reduced to idleness
be reduced to idleness 指被迫处于无业、无事可做的状态，常因经济或外部原因。
Many factory workers were reduced to idleness when the plant closed.
工厂关闭后，许多工人被迫失业闲居。
a life of idleness
a life of idleness 是名词短语，强调一种长期无所事事的生活方式。
He inherited a fortune and chose a life of idleness.
他继承了一大笔财产，选择了懒散度日的生活。
out of idleness
out of idleness 表示做某事的动机是闲极无聊，相当于 because of being idle。
Connections
Collocations
- a life of idleness
- 游手好闲的生活
- After retiring early, he fell into a life of idleness.早早退休后，他过上了游手好闲的生活。
- sheer idleness
- 纯粹的懒惰；完全闲着
- She cleaned out the drawers out of sheer idleness.她纯粹是因为闲得发慌才去清理抽屉。
- enforced idleness
- 被迫闲居；无奈失业
- The factory shutdown left many workers in enforced idleness.工厂停工让许多工人被迫闲居。
- live in idleness
- 无所事事地过日子
- They accused him of living in idleness.他们指责他无所事事地过日子。
Idioms & figurative uses
- Idleness is the root of all evil
- 懒惰是万恶之源My grandmother often said that idleness is the root of all evil.
Learner notes
Memory Tip
想象一个人整天idle（闲着）没事做，加上名词后缀ness，就是懒散、失业的状态。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：formal writing、economic or social analysis 该分析针对“没有工作”这一含义。idleness 作此义解时通常用于较正式的书面语或描述性语境，如经济讨论、文学或历史叙述；日常口语中较少使用，更常说 unemployment 或 out of work。
Pronunciation & Spelling
None of these words fully rhymes with idleness (/ˈaɪdəlnəs/). Idle matches the stressed and following syllable /ˈaɪdəl/ but not the final /nəs/. The -ness words share only the unstressed suffix /nəs/ and differ in their stressed vowel; business is a lookalike pronounced with two syllables /ˈbɪznəs/, not /ˈbɪzi nəs/.
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