torpid

• adj.鈍い、だるそうな；不活発な；麻痺した；[生物が]冬眠する

torporから、怠惰な、無力な。

torpid

torpid: [17] Torpid was acquired from Latin torpidus, a derivative of torpēre ‘be stiff, numb, inactive, etc’. Also from torpēre came torpēdō, which was applied to a type of fish capable of producing an electric shock with which it numbs its prey. English adopted the term as torpedo [16]. The fish is long and thin, and in the 1860s its name was applied to an underwater selfpropelled missile which shares its shape, and its disconcerting effect on enemies (it had earlier, from the late 18th century, been used for a sort of underwater mine).
=> torpedo

torpid (adj.)

1610s, "benumbed, without feeling or power," from Latin torpidus "benumbed, stupefied," from torpere "be numb or stiff" (see torpor). Figurative sense of "sluggish, dull, apathetic" is from 1650s. Related: Torpidly; torpidness.

1. After a long sleep，he still felt torpid .

長眠りした後も彼は無気力だった。

2.He just walked and his mind drifted slowly like a torpid stream.

彼はただひたすら歩いているだけで、頭の中には流れない渓水のような思いが凝縮されている。

3.Wholly untaught，with faculties quite torpid ，they seemed to me hopelessly dull.

彼女たちは全く教育を受けておらず、官能は非常に鈍く、私から見れば希望もないほど愚かだ。

4.Even when he was awake he was completely torpid .

彼は起きている間も完全に麻痺して動かなかった。

5.Over it all hangs the torpid sullen breeeze of May.

しかし、無力な五月を吹こうとする風はどこにも避けられない。