IDLE

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idle I. adjectiv

1. inutil, fără rost; van, deşert;

it is idle to say that e de prisos, n-are nici un sens să spui că;

it would be idle to n-ar avea niciun rost să.

2. inactiv; neocupat; şomer;

(fig.) to lie idle a nu fi întrebuinţat / utilizat;

(despre o fabrică etc.) to stand idle a nu funcţiona, a nu lucra.

3. leneş, lenevos, îngălat, trândav, tembel, indolent.

4. gol, deşert, vid, superficial.

5. (tehn.) gol; liber; în gol.

6. (electr., despre curentul electric) dewattat, reactiv.

7. (tehn., despre cilindri, roţi etc.) director, de ghidare.

8. (auto.) în ralanti.

idle II. verb A. intranzitiv

1. a lenevi, a trândăvi, a^_şi pierde vremea în inactivitate.

2. (tehn., despre roti, cilindri) a se învârti în gol / fără legătură cu cureaua de transmisiune.

◊ 3. to idle about / along the streets a hoinări pe străzi fără vreun scop precis.

4. (despre maşini, automobile etc.) to idle over a lucra în gol; a merge în ralanti.

idle II. verb B. tranzitiv

1. a risipi, a irosi.

2. to idle away one's time a.-şi pierde vremea, a-şi irosi timpul.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

It was excellent drill for their memories, a harmless amusement, and employed many hours which otherwise would have been idle, lonely, or spent in less profitable society.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

What an idle time it was!

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Believe me, it is no idle curiosity.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

As for Willoughby—to say that I shall soon or that I shall ever forget him, would be idle.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

While I was thus turning the business over in my mind, I had not been idle with my body.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

Those who chose to be idle, certainly might.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

"He is powerful and terrible, and if you come on an idle or foolish errand to bother the wise reflections of the Great Wizard, he might be angry and destroy you all in an instant."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

She made some idle remark, looking at me, and laughed lightly enough; but I saw her eyes return to his, involuntarily, as though fascinated; then they fell, but not swiftly enough to veil the rush of terror that filled them.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

It is true, that while I worked, she would idle; and I thought to myself, If you and I were destined to live always together, cousin, we would commence matters on a different footing.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

But this is idle talking!

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

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