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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "We shall be forced to come to that, and I think it is useless to waste our time in idle discussion."
-- It would be idle to narrate all the monotonous and uninteresting details of the rest of the journey.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So it came to pass that one Michaelmas this Hugo, with five or six of his idle and wicked companions, stole down upon the farm and carried off the maiden, her father and brothers being from home, as he well knew.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He appears to have been one of those Russian parasites who lead an idle existence abroad, spending the summer at some spa, and the winter in Paris, to the greater profit of the organizers of public balls.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was brought among us, as I have heard, by some strange accident in which your father was interested, and in which the savage was rigidly dealt by; but I forget the idle tale, it is enough, that he is now our friend.'
-- 'I wish no contention of idle words with you, friend,' said Heyward, curbing his dissatisfied manner, and speaking in a more gentle voice; 'if you will tell me the distance to Fort Edward, and conduct me thither, your labor shall not go without its reward.'
-- 'This is not a time for idle subtleties and false opinions,' she answered; 'but a moment when every duty should be equally considered.
-- To you, Cora, I will urge no words of idle en-couragement; your own fortitude and undisturbed reason will teach you all that may become your sex; but cannot we dry the tears of that trembling weeper on your bosom?'
-- 'He is severe to the idle and wicked, but to the sober and deserving he is a leader, both just and humane.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his hand he swayed a ferule, that sceptre of despotic power; the birch of justice reposed on three nails behind the throne, a constant terror to evil doers, while on the desk before him might be seen sundry contraband ar-ticles and prohibited weapons, detected upon the persons of idle urchins, such as half-munched apples, popguns, whirl-igigs, fly-cages, and whole legions of rampant little paper game-cocks.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There are more cafes in Paris than one, at which to trifle away an idle hour."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The glare and hurry of broad noon are not adapted to idle pursuits like mine; a glimpse of passing faces caught by the light of a street-lamp or a shop window is often better for my purpose than their full revelation in the daylight; and, if I must add the truth, night is kinder in this respect than day, which too often destroys an air-built castle at the moment of its completion, without the least ceremony or remorse.
-- A group of idle urchins had taken possession of the door-steps; some were plying the knocker and listening with delighted dread to the hollow sounds it spread through the dismantled house; others were clustered about the keyhole, watching half in jest and half in earnest for 'the ghost,' which an hour's gloom, added to the mystery that hung about the late inhabitants, had already raised.
-- On every piece of waste or common ground, some small gambler drove his noisy trade, and bellowed to the idle passersby to stop and try their chance; the crowd grew thicker and more noisy; gilt gingerbread in blanket-stalls exposed its glories to the dust; and often a four-horse carriage, dashing by, obscured all objects in the gritty cloud it raised, and left them, stunned and blinded, far behind.
-- Her thoughts were not idle while she was thus employed; when she returned and was seated beside the old man in one corner of the tent, tying her flowers together, while the two men lay dozing in another corner, she plucked him by the sleeve, and slightly glancing towards them, said, in a low voice 'Grandfather, don't look at those I talk of, and don't seem as if I spoke of anything but what I am about.
-- A set of idle chatterboxes, how should they know!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "In the plainest possible case they cavil at idle forms.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is one thing to be idle and skulk and quite another to take a ship and murder a number of innocent men.
-- While I was thus turning the business over in my mind, I had not been idle with my body.
-- The evening breeze had sprung up, and though it was well warded off by the hill with the two peaks upon the east, the cordage had begun to sing a little softly to itself and the idle sails to rattle to and fro.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It's the golden mob of the proletariat, surrounded by a showy white fence of the idle rich."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There you are, at your idle tricks again!The rest of them do earn their bread you live on my charity!Put your trash away, and find something to do.
-- girt idle seeght!'
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