Idleness is the root of all evils.

懒惰是丑恶的根源。

Such are the wages of idleness.

这些就是懒惰者的代价。

I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.

工作的时候一不觉得累，如果闲着无反会使我委顿不堪了。

But very few of us know what to do with idleness.

不过很少有人知道要怎么 才能做到无所。

Henceforth I know that to court idleness is to steal food, clothing, and warmth from those I love.

我终于醒悟到，若是懒惰，无异于从我所爱之人手中窃取食物和衣裳。

Then as now, I tend to go through periods of idleness followed by periods of workaholic frenzy.

那时候乃至现在，我都有种习惯，一阵过得特别闲散，接下来一阵又像工作狂一样大干不止。

Idleness is a great sin, and I certainly don't like any of my friends to be idle or sluggish.

懒情是一件大罪，我当然不喜欢我的朋友是个懒汉了。

Rather more, perhaps, are terrified of the prospect of what looks like idleness or isolation, impoverishment or a sense of impotence.

但人们可能会更加担心那看起来无聊或孤单、贫困和感到无能的未来。

How strange it is that any person should be willing to live in idleness, when it will certainly make him unhappy!

浑浑噩噩地活着只会让人不快乐，但还有人愿意如此生活，这是多么奇怪啊！

Not only was he ignorant of everything written on Faria's cloth, but also he had wasted his prison years in idleness.

他不仅仅是因为自己对法利亚衣物上的文字一窍不泣，还在为自己数年来无所浪费了光阴难过。

She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

她观察家务，并不吃闲饭。

In the presence of all these, he must rise and recite to a professor. Poor fellow! He paid dearly for his idleness.

在所有这些情形下，他必须站起来，面对教授背诵。可怜的家伙！他为懒惰付出了高昂的代价。

One can never deny the fact that we all suffer from such human weaknesses as idleness, moodiness, jealousy and vanity to some extent.

人们无法否认的实是我们都会遇到苦难，弱，例如疾病、情绪化、嫉妒、虚荣。

Machines were expected to do our work for us, leaving us with ever-increasing quantities of time to waste away on idleness and pleasure.

那时我们觉得机器会替代我们工作，我们则有越来越多的时间休闲娱乐。

I think, however, that, provided work is not excessive in amount, even the dullest work is to most people less painful than idleness.

然我认为，只要不过量，对多数人来说即使是最枯燥的工作比终日无所要好些。

To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooneers of this world must start to their feet from out of idleness, and not from out of toil.

为了保证投枪收到最大效果，这世界的标枪手就必须从安逸中，不是从辛苦中一跃起。

When we are asked to stay away from school, and spend in idleness or mischief the time which ought to be spent in study, we should at once say No.

如果有人叫我们逃学，懒散度日或者把应该用于学习的时间用来调皮捣蛋，我们应该马上说“不”。

Little Hugh Idle, however, had learned a good lesson, and from that time forward was diligent at his task, because he now knew that diligence is not a whit more toilsome than sport or idleness.

休学到了很好的一课，从这一刻开始，他勤奋学习，因为他现在明白了勤奋不比游戏或偷懒更辛苦。

In America, the answer is clear. People would do just about anything to avoid being left with their own thoughts. Past research, for instance, has found people to be (irrationally) averse to idleness and motivated by busyness.

在美国，答案是显易见的。 人们为了避免独处思考，几乎愿意做任何情。 举个例子，过去有研究发现，人们（非理性地）厌恶懒惰，并被忙碌所驱使。

After those weeks of idleness in London, with nothing to do, whenever he wanted anything, but to press a switch or turn a handle, it was pure delight to be doing something that demanded skill and patience.

他在伦敦度过了几周游手好闲、无可做的日子，需要什么只需按一下按钮或是拉一拉手柄。现在做起需要技巧和耐心的工作来竟纯粹是一种享受了。