Sloth

(noun.) apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).

(noun.) any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits.

(noun.) a disinclination to work or exert yourself.

伊丽莎白编辑

• That remains of all the laziness, sloth and failure. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• You hear it said that without the private ownership of capital people will lose ambition and sink into sloth. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Then by the sloth of a bureaucratic fascist. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• When they reached South America, they found the giant sloth (the _Megatherium_), the glyptodon, and many other extinct creatures, still flourishing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• When men reached the southern extremity of America, the _Megatherium_, the giant sloth, and the _Glyptodon_, the giant armadillo, were still living. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They have settled happily into the sloth and bureaucracy of governing. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Fate would not so be pacified; nor would Providence sanction this shrinking sloth and cowardly indolence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Dalton, likewise, in Pander and Dalton's work on Fossil Sloths, expressed, in 1821, a similar belief. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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