Now the machine is lying idle.

现在这台机器正处于闲置状态。

In idle moments, he carved wooden figures.

他空闲时就刻木雕。

Over ten per cent of the workforce is now idle.

现在有超过百分之十的劳动力闲置。

The earth-moving trucks and cement mixers lay idle.

运土卡车和水泥搅拌车都闲置着。

These machines have lain idle since the factory closed.

工厂关闭以来，这些机器就一直闲置着。

I hate it when students are idle.

我讨厌学生们无所事事。

De Lange reports that his colleagues have not been idle on the island.

德兰格报告说，他的同事们并没有在岛上无所事事。

Another thing that I often do is to use this idle time as thinking time.

我经常做的另一件事情是将这空闲的时间作为思考的时间。

His rod and his ferule were seldom idle now--at least among the smaller pupils.

他的棍棒和戒尺现在很少闲置了——至少在年龄较小的学生中是这样。

Doing so reduces the possibility of idle sessions being hijacked by another user.

这样做可以降低空闲会话被另一个用户窃取的可能性。

For the most reliable results, the system should be idle when you run this command.

为了获得最可靠的结果，在你运行这个命令时，系统应该是空闲的。

With so many idle cycles on my desktop processor, why would I need another processor?

我的台式处理器上有如此多的空闲周期，为什么我会需要另一个处理器呢？

In this strategy, people accept that their team members will have idle time during each iteration.

在此策略中，人们接受他们的团队成员将在每次迭代中有空闲时间。

And it is not just individuals: the web makes it easier for companies to rent out spare offices and idle machines, too.

这不仅仅是个人层面：网络使公司出租多余办公室和闲置机器变得更便利了。

The notion of a sharp division between the working young and the idle old misses a new trend, the growing gap between the skilled and the unskilled.

有工作的年轻人和无所事事的老年人之间存在尖锐分歧这一观点忽视了一个新趋势，即有技能的人和无技能的人之间差距的日益扩大。

But the notion of a sharp division between the working young and the idle old misses a new trend, the growing gap between the skilled and the unskilled.

但是，有工作的年轻人和无所事事的老年人之间的尖锐分歧没有考虑一个新趋势，即有技能的人和无技能的人之间差距的日益扩大。

It was more of an idle threat than anything.

那不过是虚张声势的威胁。

It is idle to pretend that their marriage is a success.

佯称他们的婚姻有多美满是无意义的。

Brian kept up the idle chatter for another five minutes.

布赖恩又无聊地闲扯了5分钟。

4,000 workers have been idle for 12 of the first 27 weeks of this year.

4千名工人在今年最初的27个星期中有12个星期无事可干。

She blamed the crimes on the local jobless teenagers. 'The devil makes work for idle hands,' she would say.

她认为那些违法行为是当地的无业青少年所为，总是说：“人一闲，惹麻烦”。

If my back go idle, I starve.

如果我的背闲着，那我就要挨饿了。

We are not sitting idle.

我们没有闲坐着。

Out with you, you idle, good-for-nothing creatures!

滚出去，你们这些游手好闲、一无是处的东西！

What a thankless child you are, just idle and good-for-nothing!

你真是个不知好歹的孩子，整天游手好闲，一无是处！

Seeing Pinocchio's bundle lying idle near-by, they somehow managed to get hold of it.

他们看见皮诺乔的书包就在附近躺着，便设法把它抢了过来。

Even if one were to search with a lantern, no one idle man or one tramp could have been found.

哪怕你提着灯笼去找，也找不到一个懒汉或流浪汉。

Gretel was not idle; she ran screaming to her master, and cried, "You have invited a fine guest!"

格雷特没有闲着；她尖叫着跑向她的主人，大声喊道：“你邀请了一位好客人！”

He somehow could only feel how jolly it was to be the only idle dog among all these busy citizens.

不知为何，他只觉得在这么多忙忙碌碌的市民中做一只懒狗是多么快乐。

The little tailor, not idle, gathered two pocketsful of stones, and with these climbed up the tree.

小裁缝连忙拾了两口袋石头，带着它们爬上了树。