单词关联读音英音：[sləuθ] 美音：[sloθ]中文释义n. 怠惰，懒惰，树懒，懒散习惯性的懒惰，散漫近义词acedia laziness slothfulness tree sloth反义词integrity关联Sloth，七宗罪中的一种罪名，逃避的欲望，懒惰及浪费所造成的损失为懒惰一罪的产物。
懒惰及浪费时间。（懒惰被宣告为有罪是因为： 其他人需更努力工作以填补缺失，因应该的事情还没有做好，对自己是百害而无一利）
1589年Peter Binsfeld把每种罪行和恶魔联系在一起，代表各种罪行的恶魔会引诱拥有相同罪行的人。
贝露菲格露（Belphegor）：懒惰（原为亚述的魔神之一）
单词例句His sloth keeps him from taking part in sports.他因懒散而不参加体育运动。
If forced to choose between two vices, luxury and sloth, David Hume would have preferred luxury, because to banish it without curing sloth would only diminish industry.如果被迫在奢侈和懒惰两害中取其一,大卫·休谟会选择奢侈,因为禁止奢侈而不消除懒惰,只会减少勤奋。
They conquered normal human sloth together on a cold winter's morning.在一个严寒的冬天早晨,他们一道战胜了人类的通病懒惰。
To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.花太多的时间去读书是懒惰的做法;过多地注意文采是做作;纯粹按书中的教条去评断则是读书人的毛
Until lately, you led a life of innocent sloth.直到最近,你过的还都是不问世事的懒散生活。
a large extinct ground sloth.已经灭绝的大型地面生活的树懒。
a sloth that has three long claws on each forefoot.每只前掌上有三个长爪的树懒。
Among the poor, sloth is the natural result of hard work that goes unrewarded and they have some reason for their irascibility.苦人的懒是努力而落了空的自然结果,苦人的耍刺儿含着一些公理。
diverse parts of the country; celebrities as diverse as Bob Hope and Bob Dylan; animals as various as the jaguar and the cavy and the sloth.这个国家中互不相同的地区;像鲍勃·霍普和鲍勃·戴蓝一样差别很大的名人;像美洲豹、天竺鼠和树獭一样差别很大的动物。
Fed and feeding brains about me: under glowlamps, impaled, with faintly beating feelers: and in my mind's darkness a sloth of the underworld, reluctant, shy of brightness, shifting her dragon scaly folds.我周围的那些头脑已经塞满了,还在继续填塞着。头顶上是小铁栅围起的一盏盏白炽灯,有着微微颤动的触须。在我头脑的幽暗处,却是阴间的一个懒货,畏首畏尾,惧怕光明,蠕动着那像龙鳞般的裙皱。
