Noun:

1. having no employment

2. the quality of lacking substance or value;

   "the groundlessness of their report was quickly recognized"
   

3. the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work

1. 无事可做：friday 星期五 |idleness 无事可做 | lazy 懒惰的、懒散的

2. 懒惰：idle 空闲的 |idleness 懒惰 | idler pulley 惰轮

3. 怠惰：idle 懒惰的 |idleness 怠惰 | idol 偶像

4. 无所事事：idle:作为形容词:无事可做,空闲;作为动词:虚度 |idleness无所事事 | idler 懒汉

• Unable to support any of his children..in the hereditary dignity of idleness.

  出自：S. Johnson

idleness is a very bad thing for human nature.

懒散是人性中很糟糕的一面。

Braccio was a hater of idleness.

布拉乔痛恨游手好闲。

The closure of the large factory made many workers live in idleness.

那家大工厂的关闭使许多工人失业.

idleness enervates the will to succeed.

懒惰削弱了成功的决心.

Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious.

事业虽扰人, 怠惰害更大.

He can bear idleness.

闲着不干事他可受不了.

We became suspended in some stately never-never land of pleasure, luxury and idleness.

我们流连忘返大气、奢华、惬意、闲适的世外桃源。

They were condemned to spend a fortnight of idleness at that lonely island.

他们被迫在那个孤岛上待了两个星期.

The school boy took it ill that the teacher reproved him for idleness.

这个小学生心里不痛快,因为老师责备他不用功.

I don like to moon away this Sunday in idleness.

我不愿意无所事事地度过这个星期天.

It was a bore to train, and it interfered with his idleness.

训练使他腻烦, 不合他懒散的性格.

This suited her very well as she had no taste for idleness.

这对她很合适,因为她从不喜欢游手好闲.

It is above the common mass , above idleness, above want, above insignificance.

这是超出一般人 、 超出懒散、超出贫困 、 值得重视的事情.

He was tired of rotting from idleness at Rome.

他呆在罗马,无所事事,对于一切都十分厌倦.

At this moment she was the image of a victim of idleness.

在这一间,她完全是一副颓唐消沉的样子.