| 单词 | sluggish |
| 释义 | sluggish (once / 1088 pages) adj When you are feeling draggy — positively slug-like — you are sluggish, or slow. If cookie sales are sluggish at your bake sale, you are selling very few treats. Just about anything can be sluggish. An old computer that takes forever to load a piece of software is sluggish, as is a car that can't quite make it up a big hill. And who isn't sluggish in the morning before the first cup of coffee?! Picture a slug moving its heavy little body across a basketball court... Still going? Yes. It will take that slug forever to get to the foul line at the sluggish pace it's moving. WORD FAMILYsluggish: sluggishly, sluggishness+/slug: sluggard, slugged, slugger, slugging, sluggish, slugs/sluggard: sluggards/slugger: sluggers USAGE EXAMPLESGold XAU= was sluggish, with the precious metal sliding about 0.1 percent to $1,150.82, after a flat start to the year on Monday. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) Companies saw little reason to invest when U.S. economic growth was sluggish. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Pérez played off the right and he looked nervous and a little sluggish. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) 1adj moving slowly a sluggish stream Syn sulky slow not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time 2adj (of business) not active or brisk a sluggish market Syn dull, slow inactive lacking activity; lying idle or unused 3adj slow and apathetic a sluggish worker Syn inert, soggy, torpid inactive not active physically or mentally |
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