Idleness

Definition

idle / 'aÇdl / adj ၁။ (က) မလႈပ္ရွား မတက္ႂကြေသာ။ အသံုးမက် ေသာ။ အားေနေသာ။ The factory machines lay idle during the workers' strike. (ခ) အလုပ္မရိွေသာ။ Many people were idle during the depression. ၂။ အခ်ည္းႏီွး ျဖစ္ေသာ။ အခ်ိန္ျဖဳန္းေသာ။ We spent many idle hours just sitting in the sun. ၃။ ေခ်ာင္ခိုေသာ။ ပ်င္းရိေသာ။ an idle student ❍ Researchers, however, have not been idle and have found new evidence to support the theory. ၄။ အခ်ည္းႏီွးျဖစ္ေသာ။ အလဟႆျဖစ္ေသာ။ တန္ဖိုး မရိွေသာ။ အေျခအျမစ္မရိွေသာ။ an idle boast / threat / promise ❍ idle curiosity / speculation / gossip ❍ It is idle to pretend that things are getting better. v ၁။ အလဟႆေနသည္။ အခ်ိန္ျဖဳန္းသည္။ ေလသည္။ အလုပ္ကိုေရွာင္သည္။ Stop idling and help me clean up. ❍ spend the afternoon idling around (the pool). ၂။ (အင္ဂ်င္) ႏိႈး၍အလြတ္လည္ေစသည္။ ❑ idle sth away [ PHRV ] အခ်ိန္ျဖဳန္းသည္။ idle away the hours watching television. ❑ idleness n [U] အလုပ္လက္မဲ့ျဖစ္ျခင္း။ have / suffer six months of enforced idleness. ❑ idler / 'aÇdlǝ(r) / n လူပ်င္း။ a group of idlers gathered on the corner. ❑ idly / 'aÇdli / adv ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္မရိွ။ အေၾကာင္းမဲ့သက္သက္။ အလဟႆ။ He idly stroked his beard. ❍ ‘So, what next?’ she said idly. ❍ Her words were not spoken idly. ❍ We can't sit idly by and let the countryside be destroyed (ie do nothing to prevent it).

Examples

1. The extra power stations are idle when demand is lower.
2. [stand/lie/sit idle] : Valuable machinery is left to lie idle for long periods.
3. Many men were made idle as the mills closed down.
4. Get upstairs and wake up that idle brother of yours.
5. You’re just bone idle
6. the lot of you.
7. Don’t worry. I have not been idle while you were away.
8. This country will not remain idle if its friends are attacked.
9. It was only from idle curiosity that she opened the book.
10. Idle chatter/gossip
11. [idle threat] : It didn’t sound like an idle threat to me (=it was a real threat).