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

• 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。
• 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。
• Was he alert or torpid?
  他是机敏的还是迟钝的？
• Even when he was awake he was completely torpid.
  他醒着的时候也完全麻木不动。
• 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。
• No philosopher was he-just a plain, commonplace person gifted, for the time being, with a pathological indifference: the organ that he feared consequences with was torpid.
  他不是一个哲学家&他只是一名普通的常人，只不过暂时持有一种病态的冷漠心理罢了。他用来考虑可怕后果的器官已经迟钝了。
• 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。
• 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。
• Small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather.
  东半球形似松鼠、尾巴有毛的小型啮齿动物，在寒冷的冬季变得迟钝。
• 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。