How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name!

“英名不朽”这句大话，毕竟是多么空虚！

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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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But in a recession, when workers and factories lie idle, a fiscal boost can increase overall demand.

但是在衰退中，当工人和工厂被闲置，财政的增长可以增加总需求。

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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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