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词汇 torpid
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Definition of torpid in English:

torpid

adjective ˈtɔːpɪdˈtɔrpəd
  • 1Mentally or physically inactive; lethargic.

    (精神或肉体上)迟钝的,呆滞的;懒散的

    we sat around in a torpid state

    我们懒洋洋地坐着。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • If, after your frustrating rush-hour road-rage journey to the gym, you're still a bit torpid, keep your wits by reminding yourself that it's all in your mind.
    • Sweeping lawsuits like the ones brought by Lowry have long been a favorite tool for shaking up torpid child welfare bureaucracies.
    • It was an impressive performance, especially when its two largest components, Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland, both had a torpid year. The performance put the Irish market ahead of many of its peers.
    • The Academy Awards ceremony this year was a largely boring and torpid affair, dominated by the deeply misguided self-satisfaction of nearly all involved.
    • Joe's journey, configured as an immersion into the blues, the heart of jazz, manifests itself as a depression, solitary and torpid, a metaphorical cave within which he has interred himself.
    • All the members called him Sloth, which perfectly reflected his sluggish and torpid personality.
    • He makes a hummingbird look positively torpid.
    • With its obvious punk references - London Calling is the name of a famous Clash song - the piece situates itself within the groundswell of populist resentment that is currently challenging the torpid inertia of the times.
    • Several nights and hours of the same, torpid information pouring out of tired talking teacher types did not suggest deep emotional or entertainment value.
    • And so, with ‘You and I’, ends a torpid album, that at times reminds me of nothing so much as an extended Monty Python skit.
    • Yet the field of Italian economic history is anything but torpid.
    • We fade, lose heart, become torpid, languish, then the sap rises again, and we are passionate.
    • That activity has sent a formerly torpid property market soaring, with office rents, according to one study, more than doubling from 1996 to mid-1999.
    • Later on, the caffeine seems to wear off, and torpid ballads take over as the singer ventures repeatedly into a strained falsetto.
    • His now torpid brain couldn't remember his former master well, but he knew enough to recognize him as the cause of his current level of frustration and pain.
    • The writing is torpid, the characters unfocused, the situations barely credible.
    • It is hard to avoid the impression that his torpid pace was deliberate, and that he was interested in tiring his sitters so that he could record their fatigue and psychological distress.
    • It's about two estranged college band members (one of whom is supposedly dead) dealing with the rigours of their torpid adult existence.
    • A black sky stretched out above me and cold stars gazed down with torpid light that dulled and burned a stark yellow.
    • In under 30 minutes, we get a novel's worth of detail about her life: her beloved but torpid husband, her ability to compartmentalize infidelity, the long shadow her father casts.
    • But watching this torpid, listless movie is like Scuba-diving in treacle.
    Synonyms
    lethargic, sluggish, inert, inactive, slow, slow-moving, lifeless, dull, listless, languid, lazy, idle, indolent, shiftless, slothful, heavy, stagnant, somnolent, sleepy, tired, fatigued, languorous, apathetic, passive, supine, comatose, narcotic
    1. 1.1 (of an animal) dormant, especially during hibernation.
      (尤指冬眠动物)蛰伏的
      the animal need not lie around in a torpid state, vulnerable to attack
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The fire of course revives the torpid scorpion, which then menaces Margaret but is eventually subdued when they manage to throw it into a pot of boiling water.
      • This was a useful camouflage, as they were both cool, torpid, and temporarily unable to fly after their probably nightlong tryst.
      • Dead moths had been glued to tree trunks, or moths released in desired positions during daylight, when they are torpid and remain where they land.
      • Brain waves, absent when the animal is deeply torpid, return spontaneously.
      • They may survive the winter, when fewer insects are available, by becoming torpid.
      • David, perhaps you could say more about this than I can, but I think in the most extreme case it leads to the animal becoming completely torpid.
      • Sheep were torpid, and even with binoculars, there wasn't a walker moving anywhere.
      • Nearing Chinnavaikal, we see two cows on the shore, one lying torpid in the sun, one nosing around desultorily.
      • Only Tony shared the experience of finding a large and torpid shark in 17m in the lee of Portland Bill some 15 years ago, but without him to remind me, I might well have forgotten all about it.
      • One day I saw a striped snake run into the water and he lay on the bottom more than a quarter of an hour, perhaps because he had not yet fairly come out of the torpid state.
      • Imagine one of these torpid reptiles trying to hide its awkward shell from a school of minnows: The turtle crouches warily behind a tuft of vegetation.
      • The ability of the egg to survive with suspended incubation and for the chick to become torpid are important for survival, since the adults spend a lot of time away from the nest looking for food that can be hard to find.
      • Dogfish resting on the rocks are surprisingly alert, twitching away almost as soon as we notice them, with none of their usual torpid behaviour.
      • The occurrence of torpor varied with both season and sex: it was observed only in breeding season birds, and only female todies became torpid.
      • And during the middle of winter when they meant to be torpid or hibernating, if they're woken up it can cause them basically to starve to death, because they burn up all their energy stores.
      • It spends most of its life buried deep in the soil in a shriveled, torpid state.
      • Energy requirements when euthermic and torpid, as well as the frequency of arousals, vary strongly with ambient temperature.
      • Whatever it is, they like it that way, and bleary-eyed and torpid they fin, in just enough slow motion to keep themselves in accurate alignment.
plural noun ˈtɔːpɪd
  • (at Oxford University) a series of races for eight-oared rowing boats held in Hilary term.

    in my first year I rowed in Torpids

Derivatives

  • torpidity

  • noun tɔːˈpɪdɪtitɔrˈpɪdədi
    • The history of the Bank provides ample testimony to its propensity for torpidity.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Despite the enthusiastic overtures which the dawn of a new season brings, Clark admits he will quickly lose his appetite if matches descend into torpidity.
      • Their lives are an endless chain of moments of torpidity, but the pain of these soulless beings is so visibly real it is impossible to be bored.
      • If you really do not want a clutch pedal, there is no better transmission than this: none of the surge-pause-jerk of a regular robotised manual such as Alfa Romeo's Selespeed, none of the stodge and torpidity a regular automatic can suffer.
      • An all pervasive sense of intolerable torpidity hangs heavy in the air.
      • The torpidity of this sick animated humaness is a figuration of the total energic flow of this world-body in which life-and-death are its metabolic (anabolic and katabolic) currents.
      • I know I'm handsome, but that is no reason for you to stand there in torpidity.
  • torpidly

  • adverbˈtɔːpɪdliˈtɔrpədli
    • His performance, torpidly solemn and self-conscious as a potential Oscar winner, has a fraction of the zip of his comic turns in Pirates of the Caribbean and Ed Wood.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The editor was resting casually in his leather chair, torpidly thumbing through a pile of photographs.
      • While racing's authorities torpidly contemplate these implications, jockeys must earn their daily rice-cake.
      • A Cuban cigar rested between his right index and middle fingers, burning torpidly.
  • torpidness

  • noun

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin torpidus, from torpere 'be numb or sluggish'.

Definition of torpid in US English:

torpid

adjectiveˈtôrpədˈtɔrpəd
  • 1Mentally or physically inactive; lethargic.

    (精神或肉体上)迟钝的,呆滞的;懒散的

    we sat around in a torpid state

    我们懒洋洋地坐着。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was an impressive performance, especially when its two largest components, Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland, both had a torpid year. The performance put the Irish market ahead of many of its peers.
    • In under 30 minutes, we get a novel's worth of detail about her life: her beloved but torpid husband, her ability to compartmentalize infidelity, the long shadow her father casts.
    • Yet the field of Italian economic history is anything but torpid.
    • He makes a hummingbird look positively torpid.
    • The writing is torpid, the characters unfocused, the situations barely credible.
    • Several nights and hours of the same, torpid information pouring out of tired talking teacher types did not suggest deep emotional or entertainment value.
    • Sweeping lawsuits like the ones brought by Lowry have long been a favorite tool for shaking up torpid child welfare bureaucracies.
    • If, after your frustrating rush-hour road-rage journey to the gym, you're still a bit torpid, keep your wits by reminding yourself that it's all in your mind.
    • And so, with ‘You and I’, ends a torpid album, that at times reminds me of nothing so much as an extended Monty Python skit.
    • All the members called him Sloth, which perfectly reflected his sluggish and torpid personality.
    • The Academy Awards ceremony this year was a largely boring and torpid affair, dominated by the deeply misguided self-satisfaction of nearly all involved.
    • Later on, the caffeine seems to wear off, and torpid ballads take over as the singer ventures repeatedly into a strained falsetto.
    • But watching this torpid, listless movie is like Scuba-diving in treacle.
    • Joe's journey, configured as an immersion into the blues, the heart of jazz, manifests itself as a depression, solitary and torpid, a metaphorical cave within which he has interred himself.
    • It is hard to avoid the impression that his torpid pace was deliberate, and that he was interested in tiring his sitters so that he could record their fatigue and psychological distress.
    • We fade, lose heart, become torpid, languish, then the sap rises again, and we are passionate.
    • With its obvious punk references - London Calling is the name of a famous Clash song - the piece situates itself within the groundswell of populist resentment that is currently challenging the torpid inertia of the times.
    • It's about two estranged college band members (one of whom is supposedly dead) dealing with the rigours of their torpid adult existence.
    • A black sky stretched out above me and cold stars gazed down with torpid light that dulled and burned a stark yellow.
    • His now torpid brain couldn't remember his former master well, but he knew enough to recognize him as the cause of his current level of frustration and pain.
    • That activity has sent a formerly torpid property market soaring, with office rents, according to one study, more than doubling from 1996 to mid-1999.
    Synonyms
    lethargic, sluggish, inert, inactive, slow, slow-moving, lifeless, dull, listless, languid, lazy, idle, indolent, shiftless, slothful, heavy, stagnant, somnolent, sleepy, tired, fatigued, languorous, apathetic, passive, supine, comatose, narcotic
    1. 1.1 (of an animal) dormant, especially during hibernation.
      (尤指冬眠动物)蛰伏的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Dead moths had been glued to tree trunks, or moths released in desired positions during daylight, when they are torpid and remain where they land.
      • This was a useful camouflage, as they were both cool, torpid, and temporarily unable to fly after their probably nightlong tryst.
      • They may survive the winter, when fewer insects are available, by becoming torpid.
      • One day I saw a striped snake run into the water and he lay on the bottom more than a quarter of an hour, perhaps because he had not yet fairly come out of the torpid state.
      • Dogfish resting on the rocks are surprisingly alert, twitching away almost as soon as we notice them, with none of their usual torpid behaviour.
      • The ability of the egg to survive with suspended incubation and for the chick to become torpid are important for survival, since the adults spend a lot of time away from the nest looking for food that can be hard to find.
      • It spends most of its life buried deep in the soil in a shriveled, torpid state.
      • Sheep were torpid, and even with binoculars, there wasn't a walker moving anywhere.
      • Whatever it is, they like it that way, and bleary-eyed and torpid they fin, in just enough slow motion to keep themselves in accurate alignment.
      • And during the middle of winter when they meant to be torpid or hibernating, if they're woken up it can cause them basically to starve to death, because they burn up all their energy stores.
      • Brain waves, absent when the animal is deeply torpid, return spontaneously.
      • Nearing Chinnavaikal, we see two cows on the shore, one lying torpid in the sun, one nosing around desultorily.
      • Energy requirements when euthermic and torpid, as well as the frequency of arousals, vary strongly with ambient temperature.
      • The fire of course revives the torpid scorpion, which then menaces Margaret but is eventually subdued when they manage to throw it into a pot of boiling water.
      • The occurrence of torpor varied with both season and sex: it was observed only in breeding season birds, and only female todies became torpid.
      • Imagine one of these torpid reptiles trying to hide its awkward shell from a school of minnows: The turtle crouches warily behind a tuft of vegetation.
      • Only Tony shared the experience of finding a large and torpid shark in 17m in the lee of Portland Bill some 15 years ago, but without him to remind me, I might well have forgotten all about it.
      • David, perhaps you could say more about this than I can, but I think in the most extreme case it leads to the animal becoming completely torpid.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin torpidus, from torpere ‘be numb or sluggish’.

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