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sloth    音标拼音: [sl'oθ]
n. 怠惰,懒惰

怠惰,懒惰

sloth
n 1: a disinclination to work or exert yourself [synonym: {sloth},
{slothfulness}]
2: 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 [synonym: {sloth}, {tree sloth}]
3: apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified
as one of the deadly sins) [synonym: {sloth}, {laziness},
{acedia}]

Sloth \Sloth\, n. [OE. slouthe, sleuthe, AS. sl?w?, fr. sl[=a]w
slow. See {Slow}.]
1. Slowness; tardiness.
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These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor
This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. --Shak.
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2. Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness;
idleness.
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[They] change their course to pleasure, ease, and
sloth. --Milton.
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Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.
--Franklin.
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3. (Zool.) Any one of several species of arboreal edentates
constituting the family {Bradypodidae}, and the suborder
Tardigrada. They have long exserted limbs and long
prehensile claws. Both jaws are furnished with teeth (see
Illust. of {Edentata}), and the ears and tail are
rudimentary. They inhabit South and Central America and
Mexico.
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Note: The three-toed sloths belong to the genera {Bradypus}
and {Arctopithecus}, of which several species have been
described. They have three toes on each foot. The
best-known species are collared sloth ({Bradypus
tridactylus}), and the ai ({Arctopitheus ai}). The
two-toed sloths, consisting the genus {Cholopus}, have
two toes on each fore foot and three on each hind foot.
The best-known is the unau ({Cholopus didactylus}) of
South America. See {Unau}. Another species ({Cholopus
Hoffmanni}) inhabits Central America.
Various large extinct terrestrial edentates, such as
Megatherium and Mylodon, are often called sloths.
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{Australian sloth}, or {Native sloth} (Zool.), the koala.

{Sloth animalcule} (Zool.), a tardigrade.

{Sloth bear} (Zool.), a black or brown long-haired bear
({Melursus ursinus}, or {Melursus labiatus}), native of
India and Ceylon; -- called also {aswail}, {labiated
bear}, and {jungle bear}. It is easily tamed and can be
taught many tricks.

{Sloth monkey} (Zool.), a loris.
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Sloth \Sloth\, v. i.
To be idle. [Obs.] --Gower.
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185 Moby Thesaurus words for "sloth":
Chiroptera, Lagomorpha, Primates, Rodentia, accidia, acedia,
aloofness, anger, apathy, army, ataraxia, ataraxy, avarice,
avaritia, benumbedness, blah, blahs, boredom, bunch, carelessness,
casualness, cautiousness, cave of Trophonius, cave of despair,
circumspection, colony, comatoseness, creeping, deadly sin,
deliberateness, deliberation, despair, desperateness, desperation,
despondency, detachment, dilatoriness, disconsolateness,
disinterest, dispassion, disregard, disregardfulness,
do-nothingness, drawl, drift, drive, drove, drowsiness, dullness,
easygoingness, enervation, ennui, envy, ergophobia, faineancy,
faineantise, fatigue, flock, foot-dragging, forlornness, gam, gang,
gluttony, greed, gula, heartlessness, heaviness, hebetude,
heedlessness, herd, hoboism, hopelessness, host, idleness, idling,
inanimation, inappetence, inattention, inattentiveness,
incuriosity, indifference, indiscrimination, indolence, inertia,
inertness, inexcitability, inexertion, insouciance, invidia, ira,
jadedness, just being, kennel, lack of affect, lack of appetite,
lackadaisicalness, laggardness, languidness, languishment, languor,
languorousness, lassitude, laze, laziness, lazing, leisureliness,
lenitude, lentitude, lentor, lethargicalness, lethargy,
lifelessness, listlessness, litter, loafing, lotus-eating, lust,
luxuria, mere existence, mere tropism, mindlessness, negligence,
no exit, no way, no way out, nonchalance, numbness, oscitancy,
pack, passiveness, passivity, phlegm, phlegmaticalness,
phlegmaticness, plucklessness, pococurantism, pod, pokiness, pride,
recklessness, regardlessness, reluctance, remissness, resignation,
resignedness, satedness, school, shiftlessness, shoal, skulk,
slackness, sleepiness, slothfulness, slouch, slowness, sluggardy,
sluggishness, somnolence, sopor, soporifousness, spiritlessness,
spring fever, spunklessness, stagnation, stupefaction, stupor,
superbia, supineness, tentativeness, torpidity, torpidness,
torpitude, torpor, trip, troop, unanxiousness, unconcern,
unmindfulness, unsolicitousness, vagrancy, vegetation, weariness,
withdrawnness, world-weariness, wrath


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