torpid

英 [ˈtɔːpɪd]

美 [ˈtɔːrpɪd]

adj.  不活泼的; 迟钝的; 有气无力的; 懒散的

TOEFLGRE医学

BNC.35344 / COCA.32220

牛津词典

adj.

• 不活泼的；迟钝的；有气无力的；懒散的
  not active; with no energy or enthusiasm

柯林斯词典

• 迟钝的;有气无力的;懒洋洋的
  If you aretorpid, you are mentally or physically inactive, especially because you are feeling lazy or sleepy.

英英释义

adj

• slow and apathetic
  1. she was fat and inert
  2. a sluggish worker
  3. a mind grown torpid in old age
  Synonym:inertsluggishsoggy
• in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
  1. dormant buds
  2. a hibernating bear
  3. torpid frogs
  Synonym:dormanthibernating(a)

双语例句

• We firstly put forward the torpid molecular shuttle and the inner salt molecular shuttle duo to the structural character of protein and lecithin, and we have designed two species of these molecular shuttles.
  我们首次根据蛋白质和卵磷脂的结构特点提出蛰伏式分子梭与内盐式分子梭的概念并设计出两种这类型的分子梭。
• Even when he was awake he was completely torpid.
  他醒着的时候也完全麻木不动。
• And under the influence of that wintry piece of fact, she would become torpid again.
  于是在凛冽如寒风一般的事实的影响之下，她又回到蛰伏的状态之中。
• If she tumbles into a sleep at the end of August, she'll lie torpid until the spring.
  到了八月底，她如果一头栽到床上，那就开始冬眠，一直睡到春天。
• The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms.
  两艘轮船停泊在水波不兴的海面上，我以为它们是海上的鬼怪。
• The torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter.
  一些动物过冬时的迟钝不活跃状态。
• Wholly untaught, with faculties quite torpid, they seemed to me hopelessly dull;
  她们完全没有受过教育，官能都很迟钝，使我觉得这些人笨得无可救药。
• Small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather.
  东半球形似松鼠、尾巴有毛的小型啮齿动物，在寒冷的冬季变得迟钝。
• It was not much of a place, a small, modernized, stucco villa, with a hot pebbly garden, and in it a stone basin with torpid gold-fish, and a statue of Diana and her hounds against the wall.
  其实别墅比较一般，只是一座拉毛粉饰的现代小别墅，铺有石头的花园里有些热，石盆中的鱼儿无精打采，狄安娜和猎犬的雕像倚墙而立。
• Was he alert or torpid?
  他是机敏的还是迟钝的？