torpid

英 [ˈtɔːpɪd]

美 [ˈtɔːrpɪd]

adj.  不活泼的; 迟钝的; 有气无力的; 懒散的

TOEFLGRE医学

BNC.35344 / COCA.32220

牛津词典

adj.

• 不活泼的；迟钝的；有气无力的；懒散的
  not active; with no energy or enthusiasm

柯林斯词典

• 迟钝的;有气无力的;懒洋洋的
  If you aretorpid, you are mentally or physically inactive, especially because you are feeling lazy or sleepy.

英英释义

adj

• slow and apathetic
  1. she was fat and inert
  2. a sluggish worker
  3. a mind grown torpid in old age
  Synonym:inertsluggishsoggy
• in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
  1. dormant buds
  2. a hibernating bear
  3. torpid frogs
  Synonym:dormanthibernating(a)

双语例句

• Was he alert or torpid?
  他是机敏的还是迟钝的？
• Informal financing is still an act which is not under the supervision of government. Torpid informal financing out of order is ineffectual to the fit informal finance in our country.
  民间融资是一个尚未纳入政府监管的金融行为，盲目和无序的民间融资行为无益于我国民间金融的健康发展。
• To pass the winter in a dormant or torpid state.
  冬眠在蛰伏的或昏睡的状态中过冬。
• Even when he was awake he was completely torpid.
  他醒着的时候也完全麻木不动。
• No philosopher was he-just a plain, commonplace person gifted, for the time being, with a pathological indifference: the organ that he feared consequences with was torpid.
  他不是一个哲学家&他只是一名普通的常人，只不过暂时持有一种病态的冷漠心理罢了。他用来考虑可怕后果的器官已经迟钝了。
• The torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter.
  一些动物过冬时的迟钝不活跃状态。
• An idle or lazy person. she was fat and inert; a sluggish worker; a mind grown torpid in old age.
  她又胖又懒惰；懒惰的工人；晚年时发展迟缓的思想。
• The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms.
  两艘轮船停泊在水波不兴的海面上，我以为它们是海上的鬼怪。
• Small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather.
  东半球形似松鼠、尾巴有毛的小型啮齿动物，在寒冷的冬季变得迟钝。
• They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.
  那是愉快的春日，人们感到不满的冬日正跟冻上一样地消溶，而蛰伏的生命开始舒伸了。