In idle moments, he carved wooden figures.

他空闲时就刻木雕。

《牛津词典》

I sit there in idle, and I edit some code.

我坐在那儿没事儿干，我编辑了一段代码。

youdao

Refuse to get involved in idle chatter; it will only make you look bad.

拒绝参与闲聊；那只会是你看上去更糟。

youdao

"In bureaucratic terms it's going well." "The committees are working as along as the chapters are opened technocrats on both sides work very well, but in political terms, its idle,it is not going anywhere."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

I sit there in idle, and I edit some code.

我坐在那儿没事儿干，我编辑了一段代码。

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Neither is he interested in idle conversation, as I found when I met him last week.

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