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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her empty bed, her idle ball, Will never see her more; No gentle tap, no loving purr Is heard at the parlor door.
-- The days kept getting longer and longer, the weather was unusually variable and so were tempers, and unsettled feeling possessed everyone, and Sa-tan found plenty of mischief for the idle hands to do.
-- It's against the rules to be idle here,' replied Meg gravely but graciously.
-- 'Yes, I should think so,' and Laurie thought regretfully of his own idle days.
-- Don't grieve and fret when I am gone, or think that you can be idle and comfort yourselves by being idle and trying to forget.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be but an idle whim, but it has always seemed to me, that the extraordinary vacillations of movement displayed by some whales when beset by three or four boats; the timidity and liability to queer frights, so common to such whales; I think that all this indirectly proceeds from the helpless perplexity of volition, in which their divided and diametrically opposite powers of vision must involve them.
-- Oh, Pip!thy wretched laugh, thy idle but unresting eye; all thy strange mummeries not unmeaningly blended with the black tragedy of the melancholy ship, and mocked it!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Take down the shutters, yer idle young ruffian!'
-- When the outsides saw this, they put their halfpence back into their pockets again, declaring that he was an idle young dog, and didn't deserve anything; and the coach rattled away and left only a cloud of dust behind.
-- Whenever the Dodger or Charley Bates came home at night, empty-handed, he would expatiate with great vehemence on the misery of idle and lazy habits; and would enforce upon them the necessity of an active life, by sending them supperless to bed.
-- It is not an idle thing to do so much, by the utterance of a few brief words, for one who loves you beyond all else.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And I wish my collection were larger for your benefit and my own credit; but I am an idle fellow, and though I have not many, I have more than I ever looked into.'
-- She lost all concern for him in finding herself thus selected as the object of such idle and frivolous gallant-ry; and while she steadily repressed it, could not but feel the reproof contained in his believing, that however long, and for whatever cause, his attentions had been withdrawn, her vanity would be gratified, and her preference secured at any time by their renewal.
-- She has been allowed to dispose of her time in the most idle and frivolous manner, and to adopt any opinions that came in her way.
-- You are not going to be MISSISH, I hope, and pretend to be affronted at an idle report.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was therefore entered at Oxford and have been properly idle ever since."
-- "It was a foolish, idle inclination on my side," said he, "the consequence of ignorance of the world and want of employment.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her easy gait and idle manner attracted attention of an offensive but common sort.
-- Before you came I did nothing but idle and drift into anything that offered itself.
-- It was as if idle chatter deadened the sense of misery.
-- Aye!dreams unfulfilled--gnawing, luring, idle phantoms which beckon and lead, beckon and lead, until death and dissolution dissolve their power and restore us blind to nature's heart.
-- It looked moderate, the men in it idle and small salaried.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even if one were to search with a lantern, not one idle man or one tramp could have been found.
-- Seeing Pinocchio's bundle lying idle near-by, they somehow managed to get hold of it.
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