Torpid

(a.) Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb.

(a.) Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive.

整理:露丝

• The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I have borne long with self-reproach that would have roused any mind less torpid and cowardly than mine. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• At about this point, Mr. Gradgrind's eye would fall upon her; and under the influence of that wintry piece of fact, she would become torpid again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Wholly untaught, with faculties quite torpid, they seemed to me hopelessly dull; and, at first sight, all dull alike: but I soon found I was mistaken. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He said every nerve had been overstrained in some way, and the whole system must sleep torpid a while. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The understandings of those who are engaged in such employments, can seldom grow torpid for want of exercise. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Wedded to Rowena, indeed, her nobler and more generous soul may yet awake the better nature which is torpid within him. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The bold and reckless young blood of ten-years back was subjugated and was turned into a torpid, submissive, middle-aged, stout gentleman. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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