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

• 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。
• 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。
• If she tumbles into a sleep at the end of August, she'll lie torpid until the spring.
  到了八月底，她如果一头栽到床上，那就开始冬眠，一直睡到春天。
• 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。
• Wholly untaught, with faculties quite torpid, they seemed to me hopelessly dull;
  她们完全没有受过教育，官能都很迟钝，使我觉得这些人笨得无可救药。
• We firstly put forward the torpid molecular shuttle and the inner salt molecular shuttle duo to the structural character of protein and lecithin, and we have designed two species of these molecular shuttles.
  我们首次根据蛋白质和卵磷脂的结构特点提出蛰伏式分子梭与内盐式分子梭的概念并设计出两种这类型的分子梭。
• 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。
• 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。
• Was he alert or torpid?
  他是机敏的还是迟钝的？
• 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。