sloth
音标：
英音/ sləʊθ / 美音/ sloʊθ /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
I used to love baseball, but I stopped watching when games got slower than sloth races.
我曾经很喜欢棒球，但当比赛比树懒比赛慢时我就不再看了。
—Washington Post
The couple, who married last year, will read Emily Coxhead’s Find Your Happy, about a sloth learning to navigate their emotions.
这对去年结婚的夫妇将阅读艾米莉·考克斯海德的《寻找快乐》，讲述一只树懒学习控制情绪的故事。
—BBC
Smart-home devices can make your living spaces more comfortable and convenient — or frustrate you, compromise your privacy and turn us into sloths and paranoiacs.
智能家居设备可以让您的生活空间更加舒适和方便，但也可以让您感到沮丧，损害您的隐私，让我们变成树懒和偏执狂。
—Washington Post
基本释意：
noun
a disinclination to work or exert yourself
<正式>懒散，怠惰；树懒；<罕>一群熊（a sloth of bears）
同义词：
没有找到同义词
短释义：
Slug also doubles as the name of an animal and a term for someone who is lazy, slow or lethargic. But with slug, the animal name probably morphed into the human application, whereas sloth has meant “lazy person” or “laziness” for a long time. In the Catholic Church sloth was categorized as one of the seven deadly sins.
如果你穿着浴袍闲逛，一边看电视，一边点披萨，人们就会称你为树懒。树懒实际上是一种行动缓慢、栖息在树上的哺乳动物，但它已成为“懒骨头”的代名词。
长释义：
Slug also doubles as the name of an animal and a term for someone who is lazy, slow or lethargic. But with slug, the animal name probably morphed into the human application, whereas sloth has meant “lazy person” or “laziness” for a long time. In the Catholic Church sloth was categorized as one of the seven deadly sins.
Slug 也可以用作动物的名称，也可以用来形容懒惰、迟钝或昏昏欲睡的人。但对于slug来说，动物名称可能演变成了人类的应用，而sloth在很长一段时间内意味着“懒惰的人”或“懒惰”。在天主教会中，懒惰被列为七大罪之一。
文学例句：
“And if I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from these easy tasks, what preparation would such sloth be for the future I propose to myself?”
“如果一阵风或一阵雨让我放弃这些简单的任务，那么这样的懒惰对我向自己提出的未来有何准备呢？”
—Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
It was one thing for Fig to get better at a sloth’s stroll.
对于无花格来说，能够更好地学会树懒散步是一回事。
—Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence by Sonja Thomas
Right after we were married, I lapsed into a voluptuous sloth.
我们结婚后不久，我就变成了一个性感的树懒。
—Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
词源：
sloth(n.)late 12c., slouthe, “indolence, sluggishness, neglect of responsibilities,” formed from Middle English slou, slowe (see slow (adj.)) + abstract formative -th (2).
It displaced earlier sleuthe, from Old English slæwþ, Kentish slewð, “sloth, indolence.” The modern form might also be the old word conformed to the vowel in the adjective. The modern sense of “slowness, tardiness” is attested from mid-14c. As one of the deadly sins, it translates Latin accidia. A sloth-salve (c. 1400) was a (figurative) remedy for indolence.
The slow-moving South American mammal was first so called 1610s, a translation of Portuguese preguiça “slowness, slothfulness,” from Latin pigritia “laziness” (compare Spanish perezosa “slothful,” also “the sloth”).also from late 12c.
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
sloth(n.)late 12c., slouthe，“懒惰、迟钝、忽视责任”，由中古英语 slou, Slowe（参见 Slow (adj.)）+ 抽象构成 -th (2) 组成。它取代了早期的 sleuthe，源自古英语 slæwþ，肯特语 slewð，“懒惰，懒惰”。现代形式也可能是符合形容词中元音的旧词。现代意义上的“缓慢、迟到”从 14 世纪中期就得到了证实。作为死罪之一，它翻译为拉丁文accidia。树懒药膏（约 1400 年）是一种（象征性的）治疗懒惰的药物。这种行动缓慢的南美哺乳动物最初被称为 1610 年代，是葡萄牙语 preguiça 的翻译，意为“缓慢、懒惰”，源自拉丁语 Pigritia“懒惰”（比较西班牙语 perezosa“懒惰”，也称为“树懒”）。也是从 12 世纪末开始。
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