sluggard是什么意思

sluggard

英 ['sl?g?d] 美 ['sl?ɡ?d]

sluggard 懶鬼

slug,懶鬼，懶散，-ard,人。

sluggard (n.): late 14c., late 13c. as a surname, "habitually lazy person," from Middle English sluggi "sluggish, indolent," probably from a Scandinavian word such as dialectal Norwegian slugga "be sluggish," dialectal Norwegian sluggje "heavy, slow person," dialectal Swedish slogga "to be slow or sluggish." Adjective sluggy is attested in English from early 13c.
'Tis the voice of a sluggard -- I heard him complain:
"You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again."
[Isaac Watts, 1674-1748]

'Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare
"You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
["Lewis Carroll" (Charles L. Dodgson), 1832-1898]
As an adjective meaning "sluggish, lazy" from 1590s. Related: Sluggardly.

2. We make the busy bee look like a lazy creature, the ant like a sluggard.: 我們令蜜蜂顯得懶惰, 令螞蟻看上去像懶漢.

3. I will not, like a sluggard, wear out my youth in idleness at home.: 我不愿意象個懶人一樣待在家里, 游手好閑地把我的青春消磨掉.

4. Go to the ant , you sluggard; watch its ways , and be wise.: 箴言 6:6-11 )懶惰人哪, 你去察看螞蟻的動作就可得智慧.

5. Go to the ant, you sluggard ; consider her ways , and be wise.: 懶惰人哪, 你去察看螞蟻的動作, 就可得智慧.