the two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, i believed to be marine phantoms.
两艘轮船停泊在水波不兴的海面上,我以为它们是海上的鬼怪。
perhaps my heart will be frozen and torpid together with the fall wind until next sunny day…
也许一颗心将与这秋风一起被冻结蛰伏到下一个阳光灿烂的日子…
he just walked and his mind drifted slowly like a torpid stream.
他只是埋头走,脑袋里思想都凝滞了。
even when he was awake he was completely torpid .
他醒着的时候也完全麻木不动。
they were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man「s discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.
那是愉快的春日,人们感到不满的冬日正跟冻上一样地消溶,而蛰伏的生命开始舒伸了。
the second, that the weapon, in his torpid hand, was no defense at all, but would merely serve to justify his murder.
其次,这件武器在他笨拙的手里非但起不了防护他的作用,反而给人以杀死他的理由。
「it is a man」s own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age」 (samuel johnson).