sloths

英 [sləʊθs]

美 [sloʊθs]

n.  树懒(南美洲热带动物，行动缓慢); 懒散; 怠惰
sloth的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 懒惰，怠惰(尤指工作方面)
  Slothis laziness, especially with regard to work.
  1. He admitted a lack of motivation and a feeling of sloth.
     他承认自己缺乏动力，总想犯懒。
• 树懒(见于中美洲和南美洲)
  Aslothis an animal from Central and South America. Sloths live in trees and move very slowly.

双语例句

• Even though it might seem that sloths are just lazy, moving so little gives them a lot of advantages.
  即使树獭看起来很懒散，行动迟缓也给了们不少好处。
• They may have gone, along with mammoths, short-headed bears, ground sloths and camels, because a comet exploded over their heads.
  他们可能已经同猛犸象、短头熊、地獭和骆驼一起灭绝了。因为一颗彗星就在他们头上爆炸。
• Many animals are illegal to own as pets, including snails, sloths, and elephants.
  许多动物包括蜗牛、树懒和象被养做宠物是违法。
• Ahnost a million years ago, saber tooth tigers, giant sloths and other monsters stumbled into the pits where they were preserved forever in the sticky tar.
  大约一百万年以前，长着剑齿的老虎、巨大的懒猴和其他庞然大物突然跌进坑内，它们在粘胶似的沥青里被永久保存了下来。
• Sloths are medium-sized mammals that live in Central and South America.
  树懒是一种生活在中南美洲的中等体型哺乳动物。
• Mummies of pleistocene ground sloths, with original skin, hair, tendons and claws have been found.
  还发现了保存原有皮肤，毛发，腱和爪的更新世时期地面树懒的木乃伊。
• Order of mammals having few or no teeth including: New World anteaters; sloths; armadillos.
  牙齿很少或没有牙齿的哺乳动物；包含北美食蚁动物；树獭；犰狳。