idle是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 懒散的, 无所事事的; 空闲的; 无用的, 无效的;，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No mother existed to absorb his devotion, no sister for his tenderness, no idle ties for sense.
-- "What you call encouragement was the childish game of an idle minute.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unluckily, towards the end of the second year, M. Goriot's conduct gave some color to the idle talk about him.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When my guest was a little recovered I had great trou-ble to keep off the men, who wished to ask him a thousand questions; but I would not allow him to be tormented by their idle curiosity, in a state of body and mind whose res-toration evidently depended upon entire repose.
-- Chase away your idle fears; to you alone do I consecrate my life and my endeavours for con-tentment.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Already the foundries were beginning to feel the lack of iron, forlittle or none came through the blockade, and the mines in Alabama were standing almost idle while the miners were atthe front.
-- And England was coming in to help the Confederacy win the war,because the English mills were standing idle for want of Southern cotton.
-- The cotton mills of England were standing idle and the workers were starving, and any blockader who couldoutwit the Yankee fleet could command his own price in Liverpool.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Not that anybody means to try," she added, "for that's all done with, and the place will stand as idle as it is till it falls.
-- said she to Joe, "giving holidays to great idle hulkers like that.
-- "It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did.
-- As I stood idle by Mr. Jaggers's fire, its rising and falling flame made the two casts on the shelf look as if they were playing a diabolical game at bo-peep with me; while the pair of coarse, fat office candles that dimly lighted Mr. Jaggers as he wrote in a corner were decorated with dirty winding-sheets, as if in remembrance of a host of hanged clients.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next day, however, she began to dawdle over her work, and the third day she was more idle still; then she began to lie in bed in the mornings and refused to get up.
-- Then he fell upon them with the stick and beat them one after another, crying, 'There, you idle vagabonds, you have got what you deserve; are you satisfied now!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had a little conchological cabinet, and a little metallurgical cabinet, and a little mineralogical cabinet; and the specimens were all arranged and labelled, and the bits of stone and ore looked as though they might have been broken from the parent substances by those tremendously hard instruments their own names; and, to paraphrase the idle legend of Peter Piper, who had never found his way into their nursery, If the greedy little Gradgrinds grasped at more than this, what was it for good gracious goodness' sake, that the greedy little Gradgrinds grasped it!
-- In idle imagination.'
-- 'In idle imagination, Gradgrind,' repeated Bounderby.
-- Whether, in spite of all precautions, any idle story-book can have got into the house?
-- There was no carelessness, no languor, no idle curiosity; none of the many shades of indifference to be seen in all other assemblies, visible for one moment there.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a pitiful and plaintive look for her wayward sister; for her idle brother; for the high blank walls; for the faded crowd they shut in; for the games of the prison children as they whooped and ran, and played at hide-and-seek, and made the iron bars of the inner gateway 'Home.'
-- So, over and above other daily cares, the Child of the Marshalsea had always upon her the care of preserving the genteel fiction that they were all idle beggars together.
-- Though it was evidently in the grain of his character, and of his respect for his own case, that he should abstain from idle murmuring, it was evident that he had grown the older, the sterner, and the poorer, for his long endeavour.
-- That wealth had been, in his desert home, like Robinson Crusoe's money; exchangeable with no one, lying idle in the dark to rust, until he poured it out for her.
-- At last he had declared that he would become a Painter; partly because he had always had an idle knack that way, and partly to grieve the souls of the Barnacles-in-chief who had not provided for him.
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