sloth
英 [sləʊθ]
美 [sloθ]
- n. 怠惰、怠惰; [脊]怠惰
- n.(ナマケモノ)人の名前；(段)ナマケモノ
英語の語源
- sloth (n.)
- late 12c., "indolence, sluggishness," formed from Middle English slou, slowe (see slow (adj.)) + abstract formative -th (2). Replaced Old English sl?we "sloth, indolence." Sense of "slowness, tardiness" is from mid-14c. As one of the deadly sins, it translates Latin accidia.
The slow-moving mammal first so called 1610s, a translation of Portuguese pregui?a "slowness, slothfulness," from Latin pigritia "laziness" (compare Spanish perezosa "slothful," also "the sloth").
例文
- 1. He admitted a lack of motivation and a feeling of sloth .
- 彼は自分の動力不足を認め、いつも怠け者になりたいと思っている。
- 2.Absence of competition makes for sloth .
- 競争がないと怠惰になる。
- 3. Sloth turns the edge of wit.
- 怠惰で知性の鋭さを磨くことができる。
- 4. Sloth is the mother of poverty.
- 怠惰は貧困の原因である。
- 5.The sloth spends most of its time hanging upside down from the branches.ほとんどの時間は木の枝にぶら下がっていた。
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