A guaranteed job for life only encourages the faculty to become complacent.

一个终身有保障工作只会让那些人变得过于自满， 怠惰。

Otherwise, there's no real punishment for slacking off.

否则，就没有对怠惰惩罚。

I've got to try to resist this slackness.

我必须努力抗拒这种怠惰态。

Moderation is therefore the very soul of this government; a moderation, I mean, founded on virtue, not that which proceeds from indolence and pusillanimity.

因此， 节制 是贵族政治灵魂。我所指是那种建立德基础之上节制，而并非那来自怯懦和精神上怠惰节制。

Pork, the only trained house negro on the place, had general supervision over the other servants, but even he had grown slack and careless after several years of exposure to Gerald's happy-go-lucky mode of living.

波克是唯一受过训练和胜任黑人管家，他现负责管理所有奴仆，但是几年来，杰拉尔德遇事乐呵呵生活作风影响下，也变得怠惰和漫不经心了。