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单词 inaction
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Far more likely is the action or inaction of a human actor, or weak process management controls.Washington has chosen action over inaction and has made a commitment to spending its way back to economic vigour.Further international inaction would be inexcusable.The Commons at these times is not so much democracy in action as democracy inaction.According to this logic, if you have a problem the best course of action is inaction.Our increased knowledge of hygiene has transformed resignation and inaction in face of epidemic disease from a religious virtue to a justly punishable offence.Choosing inaction in the face of vocal opposition may be difficult, but it may also be the best course.Our challenge with understanding Empire is not inaction in the face of multiculturalism; it is a culture of exam factory schooling thinning out the curriculum.

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inaction

British English: inaction NOUN
If you refer to someone's inaction, you disapprove of the fact that they are doing nothing.
He is bitter about the inaction of the other political parties.
  • American English: inaction
  • Brazilian Portuguese: inação
  • Chinese: 不作为
  • European Spanish: inacción
  • French: inaction
  • German: Untätigkeit
  • Italian: inazione
  • Japanese: 不活動
  • Korean: 게으름
  • European Portuguese: inação
  • Latin American Spanish: inacción

(noun) 
Definition
lack of action
She is bitter about the inaction of the other political parties.
Synonyms
inactivity
The players have comparatively long periods of inactivity.
inertia
I resented her inertia and lack of self direction.
idleness
Idleness is a very bad thing for human nature.
immobility
torpor
The sick person gradually falls into a torpor.
dormancy
torpidity

Quotation

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing [Edmund Burke]

Additional synonyms

in the sense of idleness
Idleness is a very bad thing for human nature.
Synonyms
inactivity,
unemployment,
leisure,
inaction,
time on your hands
in the sense of inertia
Definition
a feeling of unwillingness to do anything
I resented her inertia and lack of self direction.
Synonyms
inactivity,
apathy,
lethargy,
passivity,
stillness,
laziness,
sloth,
idleness,
stupor,
drowsiness,
dullness,
immobility,
torpor,
sluggishness,
indolence,
lassitude,
languor,
listlessness,
deadness,
unresponsiveness,
disinclination to move
in the sense of torpor
Definition
drowsiness and apathy
The sick person gradually falls into a torpor.
Synonyms
inactivity,
apathy,
inertia,
lethargy,
passivity,
laziness,
numbness,
sloth,
stupor,
drowsiness,
dullness,
sluggishness,
indolence,
languor,
listlessness,
somnolence,
inertness,
stagnancy,
accidie,
inanition,
torpidity,
acedia

Synonyms of 'inaction'

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