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 inert [i'nә:t]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 惰性的, 迟钝的, 无活力的, 呆滞的

[医] 惰性的, 无作用的, 无效的




    inert
    [ adj ]
    1. unable to move or resist motion

    2. <adj.all>
    3. having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive

    4. <adj.all>
      inert matter
      an indifferent chemical in a reaction
    5. slow and apathetic

    6. <adj.all>
      she was fat and inert
      a sluggish worker
      a mind grown torpid in old age


    Inert \In*ert"\, a. [L. iners, inertis, unskilled, idle; pref.
    in- + ars art: cf. F. inerte. See {Art}.]
    1. Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active
    resistance to motion; as, matter is inert.

    2. Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish;
    dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless.

    The inert and desponding party of the court.
    --Macaulay.

    It present becomes extravagant, then imbecile, and
    at length utterly inert. --I. Taylor.

    3. Not having or manifesting active properties; not affecting
    other substances when brought in contact with them;
    powerless for an expected or desired effect; as, the noble
    gases are chemically inert.

    Syn: Inactive; dull; passive; indolent; sluggish; slothful;
    lazy; lifeless; irresolute; stupid; senseless;
    insensible.

    Usage: {Inert}, {Inactive}, {Sluggish}. A man may be inactive
    from mere lack of stimulus to effort; but one who is
    inert has something in his constitution or his habits
    which operates like a weight holding him back from
    exertion. Sluggish is still stronger, implying some
    defect of temperament which directly impedes action.
    Inert and inactive are negative, sluggish is positive.

    Even the favored isles . . .
    Can boast but little virtue; and, inert
    Through plenty, lose in morals what they gain
    In manners -- victims of luxurious ease.
    --Cowper.

    Doomed to lose four months in inactive
    obscurity. --Johnson.

    Sluggish Idleness, the nurse of sin,
    Upon a slothful ass he chose to ride. --Spenser.

    nonmoving \nonmoving\ adj.
    Not moving. Opposite of {moving}. [Narrower terms: {at rest,
    inactive, motionless, static, still}; {becalmed ;
    {dead(prenominal), stagnant, standing(prenominal), still};
    {frozen(predicate), rooted(predicate), stock-still ; {inert
    ; {sitting ; {slack ; {stationary ; {immobile, unmoving}]
    Also See: {immobile}.
    [WordNet 1.5]

    1. Liabilities include an offstage ball that sounds as if the St Petersburg Philharmonic has moved in upstairs and an inert Krogstad (Nick Reding) of pure Norwegian wood.
    2. Today's blimps use inert helium instead of the highly flammable hydrogen that destroyed the famous Hindenburg dirigible in New Jersey in 1937.
    3. The inert ceramic materials are efficient in removing lead and don't leach any impurities into the water they are supposed to purify, he said.
    4. Cryodynamics Inc. of Mountainside, N.J., which has been building cooling devices for spacecraft, says it is using that space technology to develop a small home refrigerator that uses inert helium or nitrogen.
    5. "Ours is a terribly inert system," she says, and resistance to change is formidable.
    6. There might also, one would have thought, be some salutary lessons to be drawn from the fact that such an apparently inert and benign gas could, in the course of half a century, wreak such damage.
    7. This was the precise antidote to Solti's inert performance of the Fifth with the Vienna Philharmonic in the same hall earlier this year, and as disturbing as any imaginable account could be.
    8. The nematodes are despatched in a moist, inert carrier and on arrival are mixed with water and applied as a drench to the soil that is infested with vine weevil larvae.
    9. Tritium decays fairly rapidly _ 5.5 percent of any starting amount turns into inert helium in a year _ and must be replenished in the nation's nuclear weapons from time to time.
    10. On the other hand, said spokeswoman Robin Woods: "It may not be an environmental hazard because it's inert.
    11. The culprit might be one of Benlate's "inert" ingredients, such as chemicals added to make it easier to spray.
    12. He called rock star Sting "a stiff" and his show, a revival of "3 Penny Opera," an "inert gray mass." Despite a $4.5 million advance, it closes New Year's Eve after only a two-month run.
    13. Even such a fine singer as John Mark Ainsley seemed curiously inert as Orfeo, although Julia Gooding's Euridice and especially Tessa Bonner's Ninfa revealed more character.
    14. It is "damn near inert," says McGarry; it won't react with chemicals or break down in the environment.
    15. If Siegfried Jerusalem was an unusually agile Loge (Wotan's chief counsel), the chief god himself was unusually inert.
    16. But the play isn't funny enough to be a comedy, no matter how outrageous its situations, or compelling enough to be a good drama. Like its inert hero, "Imagining Brad" just lies there.
    17. Bill Wallace gave the order Wednesday morning to seal off vents in those tanks and an inert gas was pumped in under pressure to force out some of the water.
    18. The death rate among heart-attack patients receiving Beecham Group PLC's new blood-clot dissolver within six hours of the attack was about half that of patients receiving an inert compound, a major British research group reported.
    19. The other aircraft was carrying one inert practice missile and one armed AIM-9M Sidewinder, the Air Force investigation board said in its report.
    20. Depleted uranium is an inert, heavy metal that is unusually dense.
    21. The pursuit of inert knowledge then results in generation after generation going to school only to pass, not to learn.
    22. After months of promises, Mr Kravchuk seems to be on the verge of replacing his communist comrades, who currently dominate the inert cabinet, with his erstwhile opponents.
    23. And in medicine, polymers are useful because they are inert, meaning they do not interact with the body.
    24. He said the investment, even if only inert waste can be dumped there, could be recouped.
    25. Fees range between $10 and $20 a ton for inert waste to about $40 a ton for trash, said Browning-Ferris Vice Chairman Norman A. Myers in a telephone interview.
    26. It is perhaps because of its excessively prominent bone structure, unfleshed by characterization or story line, that the novel, despite its bold themes and inventiveness, remains strangely inert.
    27. Last week, the company announced that the FDA had approved the treatment, which involves the injection of an inert Teflon implant material, for men but not women.
    28. Un ballo in maschera, the first production at the Bavarian State Opera to bear his imprint as intendant, is leadenly conducted and dramatically inert.
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