Cadbury is no sluggish layabout: under its current management it has slimmed, offshored and become lean and mean, so swingeing cuts will take out bone, not fat.

吉百利并非行动缓慢的懒惰者：在现在的管理模式下，它已经进行了精简，成了一家离岸公司，而且变得又瘦小又匀称，因此大规模的削减将会伤筋动骨，而不是减少脂肪。

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But the squid's Titanic reputation is slowly being deflated, thanks in part to a new study that says the creature is no more than a sluggish, gelatinous drifter.

但乌贼的盛名正被慢慢地削弱，部分地归结于最新的一项研究，研究表明它只不过是个行动缓慢、呈凝胶状的浮游生物。

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Western populists will no doubt once again try to blame their own sluggish performance on "unfair" Asia.

西方民粹派无疑又会将亚洲的“不公”作为自身疲软的一个怪罪的借口。

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For a start, growth can no longer be called sluggish.

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An entrepreneur with global experience and a major gold position tells me there is no policy panacea for the sluggish condition of the U.S. economy and the overhang of debt plaguing us.

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On the other hand, investors have punished Mitsubishi Motors (No. 23) for its sluggish reform efforts.

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