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词汇 idly
释义 idly
adverb
uk /ˈaɪd.li/ us /ˈaɪd.li/
without any particular purpose: 无目的地
I was just glancing idly through a magazine.我只是在漫不经心地翻看杂志。
doing nothing: 无行动地,不活动地,不活跃地
She lay idly on the grass.她懒洋洋地躺在草地上。
stand idly byWe cannot stand idly by while these people suffer.这些人在受苦,我们不能袖手旁观。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Goals and purposes
achievement orientation
affordance
ambition
avail
cause
dedicated
dream
eye
function
idea
intention
it's the thought that countsidiom
key performance indicator
KPI
subgoal
target
target setting
thought
towards
undedicated

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Laziness and lazy people
Passive and not working

Examples of idly


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They stood idly by while the costs have been uncontrollably growing to impossible limits.
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I really do not believe that they can be expected to stand idly by and do nothing about it.
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Does he accept that as we brought that nation to birth, we should not stand idly by and allow that sort of eventuality to occur?
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We do not want to stand idly by and do nothing.
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They stand idly by at the employment exchanges, waiting for someone to hire them.
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We will not stand idly by and see the scope and function of the elementary school curtailed.
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I do not believe that men are standing idly by awaiting our decision on this aircraft.
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They are not going to stand idly by and see their wives and children suffer as they suffer to-day.
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Could we have sat idly by and done nothing about that?
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We do not want to get into a deflationary period again by talking idly or too gloomily about these defence cuts.
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I am certain that our industries, both large and small, will not sit idly by.
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We would not stand idly by and not make representations were such a position to arise.
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However, farmers are not just sitting idly by in the hope that something will turn up.
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I do not believe that responsible nations should stand idly by while others suffer or die from oppression, invasion or hunger.
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We simply cannot stand idly by and allow that to happen.
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