Taken as a whole, the turned-on computers in an office are idle a large percentage of the day.

作为一个整体来看，办公室里打开的计算机在一天里大部分时间都是无所事事的。

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The notion of a sharp division between the working young and the idle old misses a new trend, the growing gap between the skilled and the unskilled.

有工作的年轻人和无所事事的老年人之间存在尖锐分歧这一观点忽视了一个新趋势，即有技能的人和无技能的人之间差距的日益扩大。

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But the notion of a sharp division between the working young and the idle old misses a new trend, the growing gap between the skilled and the unskilled.

但是，有工作的年轻人和无所事事的老年人之间的尖锐分歧没有考虑一个新趋势，即有技能的人和无技能的人之间差距的日益扩大。

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Milton's not making just any idle suggestion that he will write a poem that future generations will find themselves incapable of forgetting.

弥尔顿不是仅仅在做一个无用的提议,他将写首后人无法忘却的诗。

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The whisper is not, Frost specifies, a "dream of the gift of idle hours.

弗罗斯特指出这些低语不是“闲散时间的白日梦“

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It is rather as though a household with lots of cash sitting idle in a low-interest bank account was at the same time paying a much higher interest rate on its debts.

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In Maine, Freeport Ski and Bike shop co-owner Jamie Richardson saw a lot of people get skis tuned that looked like they'd been sitting idle for a while.

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The rest are free to idle through a brief coda to their long subterranean lives.

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