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词汇 sluggard
释义 sluggard
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈslʌɡ.əd/ us /ˈslʌɡ.ɚd/
a lazy person: 懒怠的人,懒汉
He is a sluggard who loves sleep and hates work.他是一个爱睡觉、讨厌工作的懒汉。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Laziness and lazy people
bludger
bone idleidiom
bum around
CBA
clock-watcher
deadbeat
indolent
indolently
layabout
lazily
laziness
lie
shiftless
shirker
skiver
slacker
slackness
unambitious
vegetable
work-shy

Examples of sluggard


sluggard
I do not think that this is a case which will cause the sluggard blood to flame.
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That means to say that the enterprising, go-ahead firm which increases efficiency and turnover is penalised, while the sluggard, who holds back, scores.
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That meant that vigorous, enterprising firms were penalised whereas sluggards snapped up all the raw materials they could get because they knew that there might be a shortage.
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It is so unfair to the toiler, it gives the sluggard and the drone a reward ten thousand times greater than any merit he may possess.
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By extension, the phrase has come to mean the ground or tenement of a sluggard, or of one who is easily taken advantage of.
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By his own industry he shamed sluggards.
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A pollard simply meant someone or something that had been polled (similarly to the formation of drunkard and sluggard); for example, a hornless ox or polled livestock.
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