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torpid adj.麻痹的;不活潑的;遲鈍的;(動物)冬眠的。n.〔...

torpidity

The following is one such example . in my childhood days , i often visited monastic practitioners with my mother . most of the nuns gave me the impression of being pessimistic and torpid , and this image remained in my mind even after my initiation by master 舉例來說,從小母親就經常帶我去拜訪一些出家人,大部分的出家人給我的印象是消極沒有活力,即使跟師父印心之后,這種印象依然留存在腦海中。

Fortunately , you don ' t have to worry about a race between exceedingly slow biochemistry and unbelievably torpid debt relief , because we ' re lucky enough to have enzymes , and the debt is actually getting bigger 不過其實不用煩惱超慢生化反應與超久債務之間的比較,因為我們有幸擁有酵素,而債務則會越長越大。

Wholly untaught , with faculties quite torpid , they seemed to me hopelessly dull ; and , at first sight , all dull alike : but i soon found i was mistaken 她們完全沒有受過教育,官能都很遲鈍,使我覺得這些人笨得無可救藥。粗粗一看,個個都是呆頭呆腦的,但不久我便發現自己錯了。

“ it is a man ' s own fault , it is from want of use , if his mind grows torpid in old age ” ( samuel johnson ) “一個人老的時候如果因為很少使用頭腦而使它變得麻木,那是他自己的過錯” (薩繆爾?約翰遜) 。

He said every nerve had been overstrained in some way , and the whole system must sleep torpid a while 他說每根神經都有些緊張過度,所以整個機體得有一段沉睡麻木的時期,而并不是什么病。

The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea , i believed to be marine phantoms 兩艘輪船停泊在水波不興的海面上,我以為它們是海上的鬼怪。

Said nana , still torpid with laziness and yawning and stretching afresh 她又變得懶洋洋的,又打了一個呵欠,伸伸懶腰。

Keep on idling like this , and you will surely become torpid 如果你繼續這樣懶下去,你的腦子一定會生銹的

Instead of moping about like some torpid old she - cow , 而不是像頭遲鈍的老母牛一樣老苦著一張臉

To his half - torpid system . the three formed an electric chain 三人構成了一條閉合的電路。

And under the influence of that wintry piece of fact, she would become torpid again . 于是在凜冽如寒風一般的事實的影響之下,她又回到蟄伏的狀態之中。

If she tumbles into a sleep at the end of august, she'll lie torpid until the spring . 到了八月底,她如果一頭栽到床上,那就開始冬眠,一直睡到春天。

He just walked and his mind drifted slowly like a torpid stream . 他只是埋頭走,腦袋里思想都凝滯了,有如一汪流不動的溪水。

Over it all hangs the torpid sullen breeze of may . 但是無論哪里都躲不過那欲吹無力的五月的風。

Even when he was awake he was completely torpid . 他醒著的時候也完全麻木不動。