Bob idled away many hours watching baseball games.

宝哥顾着看棒球而浪费了好几个小时。

The negroes idled about, clearing the long tables on which the food had been laid.

黑人们慢悠悠地收拾长桌上的残羹剩菜。

Scolded and for the most part ignored, Wade Hampton idled miserably about the dining room.

韦德·汉普顿挨了骂之后，大部分时间无人理睬，只好在饭厅里消磨时间，真可怜极了。

Japan's industry minister has said restarting the country's idled nuclear reactors will help prop up the economy.

日本工业部长表示，重新启动该国闲置的核反应堆将有助于提振经济。

Ford Motor has told managers in China to work from home while its factories remain idled, said a company spokesman.

据福特汽车的一位发言人透露，该公司已通知在华管理人员停工期间在家办公。

The taxi's motor idled and backfired in the fog.

出租车的马达在雾中空转并适得其反。

The motor caught and idled down.

电机卡住并空转。

The engine revved slightly and idled down again.

发动机稍微转动了一下， 又空转了下来。

He idled in the barber shop and purchased a few trifles at the ten-cent store.

他在理发店闲逛， 到十分钱店买了几样小东西。

A proposal from 2007 to set minimum national standards has idled in Congress ; its author now hopes to push it through.

2007年，有人提议设定最低国家标准，然而这一提案被国会搁置，现在它的起草者希望能借此机会推动提案的通过。

When the coronavirus pandemic forced the global economy into a state of suspended animation, carbon emissions slowed, shipping idled, and fisheries closed.

新冠病毒大流行迫使全球经济进入停滞状态后，碳排放速度放缓了，航运停顿了，渔业也停止了。

Much of the money going into new trading accounts is from government transfers to workers idled by covid-19.

进入新交易账户的大部分资金是政府对因新冠肺炎失业的劳动者的转移支付。

If we disappeared tomorrow, there might be enough idled capacity to backfill what we currently produce, but it would come at an extraordinarily high cost.

如果我们明天消失，可能会有足够的闲置产能来补充我们目前的生产，但成本会非常高。

The standoff over health care has resulted in a now two-day-old partial government shutdown that’s idled 800,000 federal workers and closed national parks, museums and monuments.

围绕医疗保健的僵局导致政府部分停摆已持续两天，这导致 80 万联邦工作人员无所事事，并关闭了国家公园、博物馆和纪念碑。

Neptune was already unsubstantial in the twilight, half god, half ghost, and his fountain plashed dreamily to the men and satyrs who idled together on its marge.

暮色中的海王星已经虚无缥缈，半神半幽灵，他的喷泉如梦似幻地洒向在它边缘闲逛的人类和色狼。

Strange cars idled at the curb by my home at all hours of the day. Men wearing dark glasses followed me to the grocery store, my kids' school. My computer and my phone were hacked.

奇怪的汽车整天都在我家附近的路边闲荡。戴着墨镜的男人跟着我去了杂货店，我孩子们的学校。我的电脑和电话被黑了。

There also the family idled while Ellen's quill scratched across her ledgers. Gerald in the old rocker, the girls on the sagging cushions of the sofa that was too battered and worn for the front of the house.

那儿也是全家休憩的地方，当爱伦忙着在账簿上刷刷写着时，杰拉尔德躺在那把旧摇椅里养神，姑娘们则坐下陷的沙发势子上----这些沙发已破旧得不好摆在前屋里了。

Although the company has been earning substantial profits in North America - and it made $8.1 billion globally last year - it has idled three plants in the United States as car sales slide and overall demand for vehicles weakens.

该公司在北美的利润一直颇为客观——去年其全球利润高达81亿美元——但随着汽车销量下滑和市场对汽车的总体需求减弱，该公司在国内已有三家工厂停产。

I have always resented that jarring, unattractive name, for years ago, when I first plied paddle across the gunwale of a light little canoe, and idled about its margin, I named the sheltered little cove the Lost Lagoon.

我一直很讨厌这个刺耳的、没有吸引力的名字，因为多年前，当我第一次划过轻便的小独木舟的船舷，在它的边缘闲逛时，我把这个隐蔽的小海湾命名为迷失泻湖。