But even a specious justification can motivate people to be busy and that people who are busy are happier than people who are idle.

即使是一个似是而非的理由也能促使人们忙碌起来，忙碌的人比闲散的人更快乐。

What can we do to grab the attention of those individuals who are disengaged?

我们能做些什么来吸引那些闲散的人的注意力呢？

There's what we call idle thinking, kind of lazy thinking.

一种是闲散，有点像“懒散”。

After some months at home, doing nothing, I went to study at the famous school called Eton. I had partly forgotten my days at the other school, or at least my feelings about those days had changed.

我闲散在家，打发了几个月的时光，我去了著名的伊顿公学学习。我对之前那所学校的一部分已经记忆淡忘了，至少再想起的时候，心情上有了明显的变化。

And the rest, those who had lived in leisure on their incomes?

可其余的人，那些本来依靠收入过闲散日子的呢？

The normally laid-back Inuit up their pace, and the crew realize the situation is serious.

平时闲散的因纽特人加快了脚步，摄制组也意识到了情况的严重性。

We call it " dolce far niente."

我们管这叫 " 闲散的快乐" 。

Without another contract to help pick up the slack, employees may face job losses.

【slack】如果不能再承接一份合同把闲散人员都利用起来的话，员工就可能面临失业。

The stock market is surely a good place to put your spare cash, but it's risky. Be sure that you won't overextend yourself.

股票市场确实是安置闲散资金的好，是有风险，注意要量力而行。

With the state using a shrinking share of resources, the private sector has to expand faster to take up the slack.

在国家所支配的资源的比例越来越少时，私人部门必须更快发展，以充分利用社会闲散资源。

They cannot say we are lazy people who are leaving Mozambique for free things at a refugee camp in Malawi.

他们不能说我们是离开莫桑比克前往马拉维的一个难民营白吃白喝的闲散人员。

Cool as a cucumber describes someone who is laid-back or who performs really well when the pressure is on.

“镇定自若”用于描述闲散的人，或表现很好的人，通常在压力到来的情况下。

Then as now, I tend to go through periods of idleness followed by periods of workaholic frenzy.

那时候乃至现在，我都有种习惯，一阵过得特别闲散，接下来一阵又像工作狂一样大干不止。

That is the one use of the idle classes of a country.

那是一个国家闲散阶层的唯一用途。

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

闲散，如亲吻，若要甜蜜，就必须被偷走。

I re-watched Idlewild, and it's sad to me how little they interact in it.

我重新看了一遍《闲散者》，让我感到难过的是，他们在这部电影里互动实在太少了。

In this idle mood he drew village scenes in his sketch album — he had already sketched nearly every aspect of the Volga to be seen from the house or the cliff — and he made notes in his note books.

在这种闲散的心情中，他在速写本中画下了乡村风光——他已经画出了从房子或悬崖上几乎可以看到的伏尔加河的面面——并在笔记本上做了笔记。

" The consequence of which, I suppose, will be, " said Mrs. Dashwood, " since leisure has not promoted your own happiness, that your sons will be brought up to as many pursuits, employments, professions, and trades as Columella's."

“这样一来，我想结果就是，”达什伍德太太说，“既然闲散没有增进你的幸福，那么你的儿子们就会被培养成像科卢梅拉笔下那样多种多样的追求、职业、行业和手艺的人了。”

An easy-going, idle nature, never serious, but also never down-hearted, a weak, irresponsible character; but he managed to find food, such as it was, and kept himself and his alive from day to day; managed to keep them somehow.

性格随和，闲散，从不严肃，也从不灰心，软弱，不负责任的性格；他设法找到了食物，就这样，每天都让自己和他的家人活着。设法以某种式留住他们。

I care nothing for your five o'clock tea of modish drawing-rooms, idle and wearisome like all else in which that world has part; I speak of tea where one is at home in quite another than the worldly sense.

我不在乎你五点钟在时髦的客厅里喝茶，像那个世界所处的其他一样，闲散而令人厌倦；我说的是在家喝茶，这与世俗意义上的茶完全不同。