in·er·tia

noun

/ɪˈnɜːʃə/

/ɪˈnɜːrʃə/

[uncountable]

(usually disapproving) lack of energy; lack of desire or ability to move or change缺乏活力；惰性；保守
- I can't seem to throw off this feeling of inertia.我好像无法摆脱这种无力的感觉。
- the forces of institutional inertia in the school system学校体制内的惰性
Extra Examples
- Projects were frequently abandoned through sheer inertia.项目常常纯粹因为惰性而被放弃。
- She lapsed into inertia and lay there as if asleep.她懒洋洋的，躺在那儿好像睡了。
- The forces for change in the government are not sufficient to overcome bureaucratic inertia.要求政府改革的力量并不足以战胜官僚政治的惰性。
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- sheer
- bureaucratic
- political
- …
verb + inertia
- overcome
preposition
- out of inertia
- through inertia
phrases
- a state of inertia
(physics) a property (= characteristic) of matter (= a substance) by which it stays still or, if moving, continues moving in a straight line unless it is acted on by a force outside itself惯性Topics Physics and chemistryc2

Word Originearly 18th cent. (in sense (2)): from Latin, from iners, inert- ‘unskilled, inactive’, from in- (expressing negation) + ars, art- ‘skill, art’.

单词	inertia
释义	in·er·tia noun /ɪˈnɜːʃə/ /ɪˈnɜːrʃə/ [uncountable] (usually disapproving) lack of energy; lack of desire or ability to move or change缺乏活力；惰性；保守 I can't seem to throw off this feeling of inertia.我好像无法摆脱这种无力的感觉。 the forces of institutional inertia in the school system学校体制内的惰性 Extra Examples Projects were frequently abandoned through sheer inertia.项目常常纯粹因为惰性而被放弃。 She lapsed into inertia and lay there as if asleep.她懒洋洋的，躺在那儿好像睡了。 The forces for change in the government are not sufficient to overcome bureaucratic inertia.要求政府改革的力量并不足以战胜官僚政治的惰性。 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective sheer bureaucratic political … verb + inertia overcome preposition out of inertia through inertia phrases a state of inertia (physics) a property (= characteristic) of matter (= a substance) by which it stays still or, if moving, continues moving in a straight line unless it is acted on by a force outside itself惯性Topics Physics and chemistryc2 Word Originearly 18th cent. (in sense (2)): from Latin, from iners, inert- ‘unskilled, inactive’, from in- (expressing negation) + ars, art- ‘skill, art’.
随便看	out of the mouths of babes (and sucklings) out of the mouths of babes and sucklings out of the ordinary out of the picture out of the question out of the reckoning out of the running out-of-the-running out of the running for something out of the way out-of-the-way out-of-the-wayness out-of-the-woods out of thin air out of this world out-of-time out of town out-of-town out of true out of turn out-of-turn out of whack out-of-whack out of work out-of-work