今天小编给大家带来了关于考研英语的知识点分享，希望对大家的学习有所帮助，预祝大家考试顺利。
　　1.无事可做的;闲散的；If people who were working are idle, they have no jobs or work.
　　【经典例句】 Employees have been idle almost a month because of shortages. 由于原料短缺，员工们已将近一个月无事可做。
　　2.(机器、工厂等)闲置的；Ifmachines or factories are idle, they are not working or being used.
　　【经典例句】 Now the machineis lying idle .如今机器闲置着。 factories that had been idle for years .已经闲置多年的工厂
　　3.懒散的;懒惰的;无所事事的；Ifyou say that someone is idle, you disapprove of them because they are not doing anything and you think they should be.
　　【经典例句】 idle bureaucrats who spent the day reading newspapers. 无所事事、整天看报纸的官僚们 I never met such an idle bunch of workers in all my life! 我一辈子都没碰到过像他们这样吃白饭的工人！
　　4.琐碎无聊的;毫无意义的；Idle is used to describe something that you do for no particular reason, often because you have nothing better to do.
　　【经典例句】 Brian kept up the idle chatter for another five minutes. 布赖恩又絮絮地唠叨了5分钟。
　　5. 徒劳的 ; 徒然的 ; 无用的； Ifyou say that it is idle to do something, you mean that it is not worth doingit, because it will not achieve anything.
　　【经典例句】 It would beidle to pretend the system is perfect. 假装系统完美无疵是徒劳的。
　　动词含义精学
　　1.混时间；闲荡；无所事事：to spend time doing nothing important 及物动词用法： They idLED the days away, talking and watching television. 他们天天在闲聊和看电视中消磨时光。 不及物用词用法： They idled al ong by the river (= walked slowly and with no particular purpose). 他们沿着河边闲逛。
　　2. 混时间；闲荡；无所事事：to spend time doing nothing important
　　【经典例句】 They idled the days away, talking and watching television. 他们天天在闲聊和看电视中消磨时光。
　　词汇辨析
　　idle: 通常指不忙，无事可干，一般不含应责备之意。 lazy: 指好逸恶劳，贪闲偷懒，或不愿学习或工作等，常含应受责备之意。