Globalisation has given way to a new era of sluggishness.

全球化俨然已经让位给一个萧时代。

Yet every chapter in its progress was slow, bound on either side by centuries of sluggishness.

然而，这一进程每一章都缓慢，两边都被几个世纪迟缓发展所束缚。

The fact that he had never changed suggested a sluggishness of habit which seemed to me characteristic.

这么多年，他连晚上消闲地方也没有更换，这说明他习性不易改变，据我看来，这也正他一种个性。