Слово "idle". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

It is one thing to be idle and skulk and quite another to take a ship and murder a number of innocent men.

You mustn't think it was an idle life they led. They were constantly occupied.

Why think these wild things with your idle mind?

His men were idle and dishonest, the fields were full of weeds, the buildings wanted roofing, the hedges were neglected, and the animals were underfed.

We sat in the late afternoon at the windows overlooking the Grand Canal, she on the sofa with a piece of needlework, I in an armchair, idle.

"And I wish my collection were larger for your benefit and my own credit; but I am an idle fellow, and though I have not many, I have more than I ever looked into."

Why don't you belch Shakespeare at me, you fumbling snob? `There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, for I am arm'd so strong in honesty that they pass by me as an idle wind, which I respect not!'

Miss Ingram, I am sure you will not fail in evincing superiority to idle terrors.

But it was only idle speculation. I had no way of finding out, and the inquest was proceeding.

Some writers have explained the English constitution thus; the king, say they, is one, the people another; the peers are an house in behalf of the king; the commons in behalf of the people; but this hath all the distinctions of a house divided against itself; and though the expressions be pleasantly arranged, yet when examined they appear idle and ambiguous; and it will always happen, that the nicest construction that words are capable of, when applied to the description of some thing which either cannot exist, or is too incomprehensible to be within the compass of description, will be words of sound only, and though they may amuse the ear, they cannot inform the mind, for this explanation includes a previous question, viz. How came the king by a power which the people are afraid to trust, and always obliged to check?

Miss Ingram, I am sure you will not fail in evincing superiority to idle terrors.

Such idle talk was little likely to reach the ears of Mr Dombey, whom it nearly concerned; and probably no one in the world would have received it with such utter incredulity as he, if it had reached him.

Nora left the car idling in park and joined her friend.

The motor coughed into life and he let it idle a few minutes, choke out, while he sat staring out through the dusty windshield.

“Ah,” said Arthur, “er …” He had an odd feeling of being like a man in the act of adultery who is surprised when the woman’s husband wanders into the room, changes his trousers, passes a few idle remarks about the weather and leaves again.

It is one thing to be idle and skulk and quite another to take a ship and murder a number of innocent men.

Little golden objects that set lazy men to idle dreaming.

The motor coughed into life and he let it idle a few minutes, choke out, while he sat staring out through the dusty windshield.

He wanted to plunge in the river again and let it idle him safely on down somewhere.

Engines rolled over disgruntedly on lollipop-shaped hardstands, resisting first, then idling smoothly awhile, and then the planes lumbered around and nosed forward lamely over the pebbled ground like sightless, stupid, crippled things until they taxied into the line at the foot of the landing strip and took off swiftly, one behind the other, in a zooming, rising roar, banking slowly into formation over mottled treetops, and circling the field at even speed until all the flights of six had been formed and then setting course over cerulean water on the first leg of the journey to the target in northern Italy or France.