sloth

perezoso

Animal de América tropical que se mueve muy despacio, come hojas y vive colgado de las ramas.

En inglés sencillo: A slow-moving animal from tropical America that eats leaves and hangs from tree branches.

• The sloth hung from a branch.
• We saw two sloths in the rainforest.
• A baby sloth held tightly to its mother.

Expresiones frecuentes: a baby sloth, a sleeping sloth, three-toed sloth

pereza, holgazanería

Costumbre de evitar el trabajo o el esfuerzo por no tener ganas de hacer nada.

En inglés sencillo: The habit of avoiding work or effort because you do not want to do anything.

• Sloth kept him on the sofa.
• She blamed her unfinished work on sloth.
• The sermon warned against greed and sloth.

Sinónimos: laziness, idleness

Antónimos: diligence

Expresiones frecuentes: pure sloth, the sin of sloth, sloth and greed, a mood of sloth