sloth是什么意思？

sloth

英[sləʊθ] 美[sloʊθ]

• n. 懒散，懒惰，<动>树獭，（经济）停滞；

复数：sloths;

例句

• Now the American and European economies are far weaker, and though Japan’s exports to Asia have grown this year, they do not counteract the sloth elsewhere. 如今，美国和欧洲经济要虚弱很多，虽然日本对亚洲其他国家的出口今年得到增长，但这些并不足以抵消其他地方的停滞。
• Absence of competition makes for sloth. 没有竞争会导致懒惰。
• The sloth spends most of its time hanging upside down from the branches. 大部分时间里树懒都是倒挂在树枝上。
• Sloth is the mother of poverty. 懒惰是贫穷的原因.
• Sloth turns the edge of wit. 懒散能磨去才智的锋芒.
• Abashed at this question, I answered that sloth was my besetting temptation. 这个问题使我感到困窘不安, 我回答说懒惰是我的主要癖好.
• He admitted a lack of motivation and a feeling of sloth. 他承认自己缺乏动力，总想犯懒。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-UNCOUNT
  懒惰，怠惰(尤指工作方面)
  Sloth is laziness, especially with regard to work.
  例句
  He admitted a lack of motivation and a feeling of sloth. 他承认自己缺乏动力，总想犯懒。
• N-COUNT
  树懒(见于中美洲和南美洲)
  A sloth is an animal from Central and South America. Sloths live in trees and move very slowly.

英汉词典释义

• n.
  懒散;懒惰
  Sloth turns the edge of wit. 懒散能磨去才智的锋芒。 Absence of competition makes for sloth. 没有竞争会导致懒惰。
  <动>树獭
  The sloth spends most of its time hanging upside down from the branches. 大部分时间里树懒都是倒挂在树枝上。
  （经济）停滞。
  Now the American and European economies are far weaker, and though Japan’s exports to Asia have grown this year, they do not counteract the sloth elsewhere. 如今，美国和欧洲经济要虚弱很多，虽然日本对亚洲其他国家的出口今年得到增长，但这些并不足以抵消其他地方的停滞。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a disinclination to work or exert yourself
  2. any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits
  3. apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)