As the saying goes, "An
idle youth, an
idle age."
俗话说，“少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲”
Many people
idle away the hours playing on phone.
很多人把时间浪费在玩手机上。
She is too
idle to do anything.
她太懈怠了，什么也不干。
He was just idling around on the couch, flipping through channels.
他只是无所事事地躺在沙发上，换着电视频道。
She spends her weekends idly browsing social media.
她周末常常漫无目的地浏览社交媒体。
The car engine was idling when the mechanic pulled it into the garage.
修理工把车开进车库时，引擎还在怠速状态。
During lunch break, employees often
idle in the courtyard chatting.
午餐休息时，员工们常常在庭院里闲聊。
The children were idling at the park, waiting for their parents to finish shopping.
孩子们在公园里无所事事地等着父母购物结束。
She was idly tapping her foot, clearly impatient.
她无聊地轻敲脚，显然很不耐烦。
The old man sat by the river, idly fishing all day.
老人整天坐在河边，悠闲地钓鱼。
The server was idling, waiting for more orders from customers.
服务员无所事事，等待更多的顾客点单。
Students often
idle in the library between classes, browsing books or chatting.
学生们经常在课间在图书馆里闲逛，看书或聊天。
His mind was idling while he waited for the bus, daydreaming about his vacation.
他在等公交车的时候，思绪飘忽，幻想着他的假期。
Adapted to local conditions, the province also promotes photovoltaic construction by utilizing resources such as enterprise factories, rural residences and idle ponds with the aim to realize the coordinated development of photovoltaic power generation, new energy, animal husbandry, and leisure and entertainment.
该省还因地制宜，利用企业工厂、农村住宅和闲置池塘等资源，推进光伏建设，实现光伏发电、新能源、畜牧业和休闲娱乐的协调发展。
The project utilizes the company's idle rooftop area to install photovoltaic components, with an annual electricity generation of around 3.5 million kilowatt-hours, which can meet its own consumption and save approximately 4.5 million yuan ($620,217)xa0in electricity costs annually.
该项目利用该公司闲置的屋顶区域安装光伏组件，年发电量约为350万千瓦时，可以满足其自身消耗，每年可节省约450万元人民币（620217美元）的电力成本。
For instance, if an idle person were given some cows and sheep, they might chose to sell or eat them, which is not a sustainable way to help villagers have a better life in the long term," Guo said.
例如，如果给一个游手好闲的人一些牛和羊，他们可能会选择卖掉或吃掉它们，从长远来看，这不是帮助村民过上更好生活的可持续方式，”郭说。
"Amid Washington's restrictions, China's semiconductor industry will not sit idle.
“在华盛顿的限制下，中国的半导体产业不会坐视不管。
At Lenovo's manufacturing base in Hefei, Anhui Province, where one out of every eight PCs sold globally is made, the company deploys a system to improve production efficiency and reduce idle time, saving more than 2,696 MWh of electricity annually.
在联想位于安徽合肥的制造基地，全球销售的每八台电脑中就有一台是在这里生产的，该公司部署了一个系统来提高生产效率和减少闲置时间，每年节省2696兆瓦时以上的电力。
The next day, aware of the labor shortage in Fuzhou, Fujian province, US-based retail giant Walmart started to offer jobs to idle hands because of the epidemic.
I believe it offers a cost-efficient way to keep idle resources in circulation, even monetize them, and caters to females' need for fine goods.
The outstanding interbank WMPs declined 62.57 percent year-on-year to 1.22 trillion yuan, demonstrating a significant reduction in idle funds, said a report co-issued by China Banking Association and China's Banking Sector Wealth Management Registration and Trusteeship Center on March 29.
The company, located in Kunming, the capital of Southwest China's Yunnan province, however, ran into trouble over the past several years because sales of heavy mechanical products plummeted, leaving several workshops idle.
To make better use of solar power, avoid power-cuts and wastage of energy, the National Energy Administration issued a statement last year saying it planned to allocate its annual solar power installation quotas based on a review of idle rates and other conditions across China.