Definition of sloth in English:
sloth
noun sləʊθ
1mass noun Reluctance to work or make an effort; laziness.
不愿工作（或努力）；懒惰he should overcome his natural sloth and complacency他应当克服自己天性中的懒散和自满。
- When does the diagnosis become lethargy or sloth?
- The original ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ are commonly regarded as greed, gluttony, envy, sloth, pride, lust and wrath. search news
- I wouldn't like to use the term gradual laziness to describe the deterioration my work ethic - not when words like indolence, sloth and bone-idleness will do so much better.
- Their suspicions focussed particularly on what Cornwallis and his kind characterized as sloth and desertion.
- However, I was by now committed to a day of gluttony and sloth, and so spent the afternoon eating chocolate and watching ‘reality’ tv.
- Night after night Shaun drags her to the neighbourhood pub, the Winchester, to suck back pints with his best friend Ed, the poster boy for sloth and neglect.
- The long, hot dusty afternoons, where time hangs still, and dry leaves fly in sad whirls before collapsing to the ground, the inertia and sloth that drives even the most energetic into a huddle, the sense of despair.
- Call it lethargy, call it ennui, call it plain, honest to goodness sloth, but I had yet to stir my bones and make the trek north.
- ‘It's about idleness and sloth, and not getting out there and bringing in fresh, exciting stories,’ he says.
- It's ridiculous that I've got one of the largest cultural cities in the world to the south of me, lots of which it costs relatively little to see and I let sloth and lethargy stop me from seeing it.
- Reverend Andy said he wasn't surprised that my zeal of the previous week had been replaced by sloth and apathy.
- I firmly believe that sloth and indolence are much kinder to the environment than greed and ambition.
- But can't we have a little listlessness in our lives, some sloth, a dollop or two of drowsiness?
- My main moral failings have always centered on greed and sloth.
- Once again the drawbacks to living a life of laziness and sloth became apparent.
- It seems to be intrinsic to domestic politics of every variety that a certain dismal downward trend emerges, characterized by sloth, despondency and complacency.
- Their lack of mathematical acumen is taken by parents and teachers as evidence of laziness, of sloth.
- The law was against loitering, though it may as well have been against idleness and sloth.
- In the triumph of Royalist counter-revolution Milton saw the dangers of political passivity, of ideological sloth.
- The wandering soul has countless names, many of them suggestive of sloth and indolence.
laziness, idleness, indolence, slothfulness, inactivity, inertia, sluggishness, apathy, accidie, listlessness, lassitude, passivity, lethargy, languor, torpidity, slowness, heaviness, dullness, shiftlessnessFrench archaic fainéancerare hebetude2A slow-moving tropical American mammal that hangs upside down from the branches of trees using its long limbs and hooked claws.
树懒Families Bradypodidae (three species of three-toed sloth in genus Bradypus) and Megalonychidae (two species of two-toed sloth in genus Choloepus), order Xenarthra (or Edentata). See also ground sloth
- Monkeys, tapirs, sloths, anteaters, and bats abound, all in an area the size of West Virginia.
- But on the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola - shared today by modern-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic - sloths survived until about 4,400 years ago.
- The sloths and armadillos are rather odd mammals characteristic of South America.
- The first has been likened to tree sloths and the second compared to koala bears.
- He doesn't like to hang on trees with the other sloths.
- The cerebellum is nearly the same fraction of the brain in sloths and cats, sheep, manatees and antelopes but many fold bigger in some elasmobranch species than in others.
- You can walk through a tropical jungle and admire parrots, poison tree frogs and sloths in the trees and piranhas in the water beneath, or watch beluga whales and sea otters through the windows of large tanks in the Canadian Arctic display.
- Two toed sloths are perhaps more heterothermic than any other mammal.
- The woolly rhinos and cave bears of Europe and Asia, the saber-toothed cats, the mastodons and giant sloths of North and South America - could some of these have made it through too?
- But the journey, which leads to the discovery of shards of ancient pottery and the bones of extinct sloths, makes for a story of great suspense.
- In South America, a group known as the Xenarthrans developed, today represented by the anteaters, sloths and armadillos.
- This night, the turtle was laying her eggs on a low shelf of sand near a line of dune scrub and low palms, not far from dense jungle that is home to the deadly fer-de-lance snake, caimans, howler monkeys and sloths.
- This category includes three very different groups of animals: the armadillos, the ant-eaters, and the sloths.
- Three-toed sloths weigh 3-5 kg; their bodies run around 0.5 m in length.
- South America was also home to living species of armadillos and sloths.
- Peccaries, tapirs, anteaters, armadillos, sloths, coatis, and others are around but hard to see.
- Dogs, rhinoceroses, tree sloths, horses, and whales are placentals.
- Saber-toothed cats, mastodons, giant sloths, woolly rhinos, and many other big, shaggy mammals are widely thought to have died out around the end of the last ice age, some 10,500 years ago.
- The group currently includes armadillos, 2-toed sloths, 3-toed sloths, and anteaters, placed in four families containing 29 species.
- They come down trees head-first like squirrels; stand on their hind legs balancing on their tails like kangaroos; and crawl and hang upside-down in the canopy like sloths.
3rare A group of bears.
the pair had been attacked by a sloth of bears- "Isn't thirteen a large number for a sloth of bears?" "It certainly is," the hunter answered, "six is as many as I ever saw together."
- The food that bears eat is not often found in large quantities and would not be enough to feed a group, or sloth, of bears.
- Where food is plentiful, like at a salmon stream, you will often see a sloth of bears.
Origin
Old English: from slow + -th2.
Rhymes
both, growth, loath, oath, quoth, Thoth, troth
Definition of sloth in US English:
sloth
noun
1Reluctance to work or make an effort; laziness.
不愿工作（或努力）；懒惰he should overcome his natural sloth and complacency他应当克服自己天性中的懒散和自满。
- But can't we have a little listlessness in our lives, some sloth, a dollop or two of drowsiness?
- Their suspicions focussed particularly on what Cornwallis and his kind characterized as sloth and desertion.
- In the triumph of Royalist counter-revolution Milton saw the dangers of political passivity, of ideological sloth.
- The original ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ are commonly regarded as greed, gluttony, envy, sloth, pride, lust and wrath. search news
- ‘It's about idleness and sloth, and not getting out there and bringing in fresh, exciting stories,’ he says.
- Call it lethargy, call it ennui, call it plain, honest to goodness sloth, but I had yet to stir my bones and make the trek north.
- Their lack of mathematical acumen is taken by parents and teachers as evidence of laziness, of sloth.
- It's ridiculous that I've got one of the largest cultural cities in the world to the south of me, lots of which it costs relatively little to see and I let sloth and lethargy stop me from seeing it.
- The long, hot dusty afternoons, where time hangs still, and dry leaves fly in sad whirls before collapsing to the ground, the inertia and sloth that drives even the most energetic into a huddle, the sense of despair.
- The wandering soul has countless names, many of them suggestive of sloth and indolence.
- It seems to be intrinsic to domestic politics of every variety that a certain dismal downward trend emerges, characterized by sloth, despondency and complacency.
- I wouldn't like to use the term gradual laziness to describe the deterioration my work ethic - not when words like indolence, sloth and bone-idleness will do so much better.
- Once again the drawbacks to living a life of laziness and sloth became apparent.
- The law was against loitering, though it may as well have been against idleness and sloth.
- I firmly believe that sloth and indolence are much kinder to the environment than greed and ambition.
- When does the diagnosis become lethargy or sloth?
- However, I was by now committed to a day of gluttony and sloth, and so spent the afternoon eating chocolate and watching ‘reality’ tv.
- Night after night Shaun drags her to the neighbourhood pub, the Winchester, to suck back pints with his best friend Ed, the poster boy for sloth and neglect.
- Reverend Andy said he wasn't surprised that my zeal of the previous week had been replaced by sloth and apathy.
- My main moral failings have always centered on greed and sloth.
laziness, idleness, indolence, slothfulness, inactivity, inertia, sluggishness, apathy, accidie, listlessness, lassitude, passivity, lethargy, languor, torpidity, slowness, heaviness, dullness, shiftlessness2A slow-moving tropical American mammal that hangs upside down from the branches of trees using its long limbs and hooked claws.
树懒Families Bradypodidae (three species of three-toed sloth in genus Bradypus) and Megalonychidae (two species of two-toed sloth in genus Choloepus), order Xenarthra (or Edentata)
- But the journey, which leads to the discovery of shards of ancient pottery and the bones of extinct sloths, makes for a story of great suspense.
- In South America, a group known as the Xenarthrans developed, today represented by the anteaters, sloths and armadillos.
- They come down trees head-first like squirrels; stand on their hind legs balancing on their tails like kangaroos; and crawl and hang upside-down in the canopy like sloths.
- Peccaries, tapirs, anteaters, armadillos, sloths, coatis, and others are around but hard to see.
- The sloths and armadillos are rather odd mammals characteristic of South America.
- Two toed sloths are perhaps more heterothermic than any other mammal.
- Monkeys, tapirs, sloths, anteaters, and bats abound, all in an area the size of West Virginia.
- You can walk through a tropical jungle and admire parrots, poison tree frogs and sloths in the trees and piranhas in the water beneath, or watch beluga whales and sea otters through the windows of large tanks in the Canadian Arctic display.
- The woolly rhinos and cave bears of Europe and Asia, the saber-toothed cats, the mastodons and giant sloths of North and South America - could some of these have made it through too?
- South America was also home to living species of armadillos and sloths.
- Three-toed sloths weigh 3-5 kg; their bodies run around 0.5 m in length.
- He doesn't like to hang on trees with the other sloths.
- Saber-toothed cats, mastodons, giant sloths, woolly rhinos, and many other big, shaggy mammals are widely thought to have died out around the end of the last ice age, some 10,500 years ago.
- The cerebellum is nearly the same fraction of the brain in sloths and cats, sheep, manatees and antelopes but many fold bigger in some elasmobranch species than in others.
- This night, the turtle was laying her eggs on a low shelf of sand near a line of dune scrub and low palms, not far from dense jungle that is home to the deadly fer-de-lance snake, caimans, howler monkeys and sloths.
- This category includes three very different groups of animals: the armadillos, the ant-eaters, and the sloths.
- Dogs, rhinoceroses, tree sloths, horses, and whales are placentals.
- The first has been likened to tree sloths and the second compared to koala bears.
- The group currently includes armadillos, 2-toed sloths, 3-toed sloths, and anteaters, placed in four families containing 29 species.
- But on the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola - shared today by modern-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic - sloths survived until about 4,400 years ago.
Origin
Old English: from slow + -th.