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词汇 idling
释义 idling
present participle ofidle
idle
verb[ I ]
uk /ˈaɪ.dəl/ us /ˈaɪ.dəl/(UK alsotick over)
If an engine or machine idles, it runs slowly but does not move or do any work: (发动机)低速运转,空转
He left the engine idling and ran into the shop.他让引擎空转着,自己跑进了商店。
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The engine & engine parts

Phrasal verb


idle something away

Examples of idling


idling

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


They base their hypothesis on clinical evidence that basal ganglia dysfunction allows slow idling cortical rhythms to predominate.
You could have made that turn and been on your way-on our way-instead of idling around here.
Such an inhibitory mechanism would help the brain go into a cortical idling mode during periods of mental inactivity.
Require that if a loop exists, the last step contains a transition to disallow looping by idling.
These rules force all idling to happen at the beginning, followed by non-idling time-steps (if any).
Morse, quite differently, gets his best ideas through idling.
Of course idling steps may always intervene.
I can hardly agree that if there is idling it can be for lack of sustenance.
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I do not want to say that they are all idling and slacking; that would be wicked, and it would be untrue.
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They did not allow me time for idling on the way.
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Some systems will already automatically shut the engine down after a prolonged period of idling.
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Regarding the problem of labour there have been allegations that workpeople are idling.
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It is not always suitable for idling on the beach, but it is good for touring and ideal for many forms of sport.
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This could not have been done by the cheap idling process experimented with by us at the end of the war.
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It is much better that men should be paid for doing necessary and useful work than for idling and rusting at the street corners.
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