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

一个终身有保障的会让那些人变得过于自满， 怠惰。

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

否则，就没有对怠惰的惩罚。

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 是贵族政治的灵魂。我所指的是那种建立在品德基础之的节制，而并非那来自怯懦和的怠惰的节制。

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的黑人管家，他现在负责管理所有的奴仆，但是几年来，在杰拉尔德遇事乐呵呵的生活风影响下，也变得怠惰和漫不经心了。