Word · Frequency #15250
Fully loadedidlenesses
失业；无业
idlenesses is the plural of idleness.
核心释义
此处取“没有工作”之义，而非“懒惰”。
idleness
- 1.
闲散；不活动。
The state of being idle; inactivity.
- 2.
没有工作；失业
having no employment
- 3.
懒惰；懒散。
The state of being indolent; indolence.
- 4.
缺乏实质或价值；空洞无物
the quality of lacking substance or value
- 5.
无根据；无价值；琐碎；虚荣；轻浮。
Groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality; vanity; frivolity.
- 6.
因不愿工作而游手好闲的习性；懒惰
the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work
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。
用法In use
After the factory closed, he faced months of idleness before finding a new job.
用法提示：idleness 是名词，在句中作宾语，表示“失业、没有工作”的状态。
Her idleness was not her choice; she had been looking for work every day.
用法提示：idleness 是名词，作主语，指“无业、失业”的状态。
The government introduced training programs to reduce idleness among young people.
用法提示：idleness 是名词，作 reduce 的宾语，表示“失业、无业”的状况。
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。
相关词与表达Connections
搭配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。
学习提示Learner notes
记忆技巧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。
语境与语域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。
发音与拼写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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