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。
• 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。
• Was he alert or torpid?
  他是机敏的还是迟钝的？
• It was not much of a place, a small, modernized, stucco villa, with a hot pebbly garden, and in it a stone basin with torpid gold-fish, and a statue of Diana and her hounds against the wall.
  其实别墅比较一般，只是一座拉毛粉饰的现代小别墅，铺有石头的花园里有些热，石盆中的鱼儿无精打采，狄安娜和猎犬的雕像倚墙而立。
• 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。
• Even when he was awake he was completely torpid.
  他醒着的时候也完全麻木不动。
• 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。
• 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。
• And under the influence of that wintry piece of fact, she would become torpid again.
  于是在凛冽如寒风一般的事实的影响之下，她又回到蛰伏的状态之中。
• 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。