idle的意思|idle的解释-里氏词典

Idle \I"dle\, a. [Compar. {Idler}; superl. {Idlest}.] [OE. idel,
AS. [=i]del vain, empty, useless; akin to OS. [=i]dal, D.
ijdel, OHG. [=i]tal vain, empty, mere, G. eitel, Dan. & Sw.
idel mere, pure, and prob. to Gr. ? clear, pure, ? to burn.
Cf. {Ether}.]
1. Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable;
thoughtless; silly; barren. ``Deserts idle.'' --Shak.

Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall
give account thereof in the day of judgment. --Matt.
xii. 36.

Down their idle weapons dropped. --Milton.

This idle story became important. --Macaulay.

2. Not called into active service; not turned to appropriate
use; unemployed; as, idle hours.

The idle spear and shield were high uphing.
--Milton.

3. Not employed; unoccupied with business; inactive; doing
nothing; as, idle workmen.

Why stand ye here all the day idle? --Matt. xx. 6.

4. Given rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy;
slothful; as, an idle fellow.

5. Light-headed; foolish. [Obs.] --Ford.

{Idle pulley} (Mach.), a pulley that rests upon a belt to
tighten it; a pulley that only guides a belt and is not
used to transmit power.

{Idle wheel} (Mach.), a gear wheel placed between two others,
to transfer motion from one to the other without changing
the direction of revolution.

{In idle}, in vain. [Obs.] ``God saith, thou shalt not take
the name of thy Lord God in idle.'' --Chaucer.

Syn: Unoccupied; unemployed; vacant; inactive; indolent;
sluggish; slothful; useless; ineffectual; futile;
frivolous; vain; trifling; unprofitable; unimportant.

Usage: {Idle}, {Indolent}, {Lazy}. A propensity to inaction
is expressed by each of these words; they differ in
the cause and degree of this characteristic. Indolent
denotes an habitual love to ease, a settled dislike of
movement or effort; idle is opposed to {busy}, and
denotes a dislike of continuous exertion. Lazy is a
stronger and more contemptuous term than indolent.

Idle \I"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Idled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Idling}.]
To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed
in business. --Shak.

Idle \I"dle\, v. t.
To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; -- often followed
by away; as, to idle away an hour a day.

Because idle farm land decimated the demand for labor, fertilizer, farm equipment and other ag inputs.
The largest auto maker announced it would idle 3,700 workers by closing indefinitely its Framingham, Mass., assembly plant.
The chances are, though, that such pressures will remain muted for the time being. Recovery initially brings productivity gains as idle capacity is brought back on stream.
In recent years, farmers have been required to idle some land to be eligible for federal payments.
"You can't assemble it gradually," he said. "You can't have the carburetor working while the starter is idle.
But it has sat idle until recently while the companies and the community fought over how the crude would be moved south to Los Angeles.
Also, farmers are being required to idle only 10 percent of their wheat base acres for 1989 in order to qualify for government price supports, compared with 27.5 percent previously.
Ford said that on some of the chassis, engine governor levels, which are part of the accelerator mechanism, may have been assembled incorrectly, which could ultimately lead to the engine's taking substantially more time than normal to return to idle.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in a move likely to benefit the idle Seabrook, N.H., nuclear plant, proposed cutting back emergency planning required for towns surrounding a plant before first-phase operations can begin.
Chrysler Corp. will idle all but two of its seven U.S. car and truck plants next week.
Other proposed theories of sudden acceleration, such as problems with the cruise control or electronic idle speed control systems, failed to meet the test of an open throttle while the brakes are applied, NHTSA said.
"Public transport is virtually at a halt and many enterprises are idle on account of the failure to turn out to work," it said.
Of course, if sterling is not over-valued then this is all idle speculation.
"It's also gotten rid of a few idle speculators who might have been more interested in the company at $41." In a letter to Ronald J. Jackson, Kenner's president and chief executive officer, New World requested a meeting with the Kenner executives.
The indefinite layoff at the plant will idle 425 workers.
One reason for optimism, he said, is the Conservation Reserve Program, which will idle 30 million or more acres a year through the mid-1990s under long-term agreements with farmers to protect fragile crop land.
Now companies are paying high depreciation charges after a surge of capital investment, and they are forced to maintain idle workers because of permanent employment policies.
The glossies of the idle rich, Town and Country and European Travel and Life, do. The best known men's magazines, GQ and Esquire, do not.
Meanwhile, mines like Tasna which in the hands of the private sector could be providing much needed employment and export earnings, remain idle indefinitely.
Ford Motor Co. cited slow sales of medium and heavy trucks in announcing Thursday that the company will idle a Louisville, Ky., plant for one week.
According to Soviet press reports, a quarter of the country's combine harvesters are idle for lack of spare parts.
Signs of a large Soviet purchase of U.S. corn pulled corn futures prices up sharply Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade and it wasn't just idle speculation.
DMI Furniture Inc. said it reopened an assembly facility in Huntingburg, Ind., that had been idle since 1980.
The car "can easily be held stationary with the brakes," Honda said, but the high idle "could cause the vehicle to move, requiring extra brake pressure to be applied."
GM took an aftertax charge of $2.1 billion in the third quarter for the cost of closing four idle assembly plants, resulting in a $1.98 billion net loss for the period.
As previously reported, Chrysler's Warren, Mich., Dodge City truck assembly plant will be idle next week.
"No government can stay idle when the security of the state is threatened," he said.
Consumers Power had said that in addition to equipment already lying idle at the site that will be used in the conversion, a total of $600 million would be needed to build the new plant.
It's such idle chatter that sometimes yields valuable tips and contacts in Washington's network of influence salesmen.
Panhandle Eastern Corp. said its Lachmar shipping partnership unit failed to make payment Friday of $2.6 million of interest on certain long-term bonds issued to finance one of its two idle liquefied natural gas tankers.

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