When you're loafing around, you're not convincing your brain that learning is necessary.

在我们无所事事的时候，大脑会认为学习没有任何必要。

There he met plenty of idle boys.

他还遇了几个无所事事的小男孩。

I liked my coworkers and loved the kids—even the Beavis and Butt-Head types in Living with English could be interesting—but by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain.

我喜欢我的同事，也爱那些孩子——即便是瘪四大头蛋（Beavis&Butthead，美国著名卡通形象，是两个无所事事的青春期萌动少年，自作聪明而频闹笑话）这种问题少年出现在真实的英语课堂上我也会觉得挺有趣——但是了礼拜五的下午，我半都会个星期我的脑子都像是被电线捆住了一样。

This is all linked to higher stress and anxiety levels that are caused by the constant feeling that nothing is getting done, particularly when the realisation comes that time is running out.

这一切都与更高的压力焦虑水平有关，这些压力焦虑是由持续的觉造成的，特别是当意识时间已自己却无所事事的时候。

Freeloaders. They just sit around while their hard-working colleagues get things done.

吃白食者。就是指那些在勤奋的同事完成工作时自己却无所事事坐着的人。

Strange that such a piece of idling should have seemed an important errand.

说来奇怪，去做这样一种无所事事的闲逛，却好像是要去完成一项重大的使命。

One person after another gathered around the two. Some said one thing, some another.

爱看热闹无所事事的人一下子就过来，围成了一大堆，大家七嘴八舌舌的。

I'm the reason you sit around all day doing nothing?

是我让你天无所事事的吗？

" Every artist in the world has spent 18 months twiddling their thumbs, so they are making records, " says Ed Macdonald, the manager of 100% Records, which represents artists such as We Are Scientists, an indie rock band.

“世界上所有艺术家都有了18个月无所事事的时间，所以他们都在制作唱片，”100%唱片公司的理艾德·麦克唐纳说。该公司代理着一些艺术家，比如独立摇滚乐队We are Scientists。

Never having known mother or sisters, he was quick to feel the influences they brought about him, and their busy, lively ways made him ashamed of the indolent life he led.

既然从没尝过母爱，也没有过姐妹，他很快就觉她们给他带来的影响；她们的忙碌生气勃勃则使他对自己无所事事的生活羞惭。

But I work 12 hours a day, and then I come home to what seems like 33 children and a husband who refuses to get a job.

可是我一天工作12小时，等我回家的时候迎接我的是一大群孩子他们无所事事的父亲。

But she certainly won't enjoy the transformation of her glamorous ace of a husband into a man who sits about the house with nothing to do.

但她肯定会喜欢自己出色的丈夫变成在家无所事事的闲人。

It is evidently the theory of some armchair lounger who evolves all these neat little paradoxes in the seclusion of his own study.

显然，这是哪一位饱食终日、无所事事的懒汉，坐在他的书房里闭门造车地空想出来的一套似是而非的妙论。

Now, to stave off means to stop or to keep an unpleasant feeling away. In this case she means boredom.

打发无聊指的是做什么事情来停止无聊或者让舒服的觉远离自己。在这里指的就是无所事事的觉。

Well, there were two things that happened to me toward the end of my college career. One, I was goofing off.

在我大学生涯即将结束的时候，有两件事发生在我身上。一，我那时就是无所事事的状态。

Do you've any idea what is like to wake up every morning and have no reason to get out of bed?

你知道那种每天早上起来无所事事的觉吗？

The word idle means inactive or not working. And some people believe that keeping busy keeps you out of trouble.

idle的意思是无所事事，有的人认为忙碌能让人远离麻烦。

The second question: What are some suggestions given to help embrace doing nothing?

有哪些建议可以帮助人们欣然接受无所事事的状态？

While it is important to relax in the evening, relaxation isn't an excuse to do nothing.

同样，在晚上放松也是很重要的，放松是无所事事的借口。

Cserdi had once been strewn with rubble and dilapidated houses, with idle, jobless men brawling outside.

曾，切尔迪处是瓦砾破旧的房屋，无所事事的失业者在外面喧嚷。