- (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 ExamplesProjects 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
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- overcome
- out of inertia
- through inertia
- a state of inertia
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physics 物理 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
Word Originearly 18th cent. (in sense (2)): from Latin, from iners, inert- ‘unskilled, inactive’, from in- (expressing negation) + ars, art- ‘skill, art’.