torpor
核心词议：

速记方法
速记技巧 词源记忆法 来自拉丁语torpere，使麻木，使迟钝，来自PIE*ster，僵硬，固化，词源同sterile，stereotype. 发音联想法 发音想成“太婆”。（老太婆多数是反应迟钝，感觉迟缓的）

知识扩展
词根词缀 词根 torp= numb 麻木 torpid adj. 迟钝的 torp 麻木 + id …的 → 麻木的 → 迟钝的 torpidity n. 麻痹 torpid 迟钝的 + ity 具备某种性质，状况 → 麻痹 torpify v. 使麻木；使迟钝 torp 麻木 + ify 使 → 使麻木；使迟钝 torpor n. 迟钝；不活泼 torp 麻木 + or 情况，状态，性质 → 迟钝；不活泼 torporific adj. 引起麻痹的，引起麻木的 torpor 迟钝；不活泼 + ific 产生…的 → 引起麻痹的，引起麻木的

中文词源： torpor 懒散，无力 来自拉丁语 torpere,使麻木，使迟钝，来自 PIE*ster,僵硬，固化，词源同 sterile,stereotype. torpor
精选例句

常见考点例句：

But other reasons explain the torpor .

但麻木背后还有其它原因。

Diplomatic torpor usually reigns in the region : last week when the elected president of one member country the maldives was toppled in a coup there was a resounding silence from the neighbours .

外交上的麻木在该地区占统治地位：上周，南亚地区合作组织成员国马尔代夫的民选总统在政变中被推翻，邻国表现出沉默令人瞩目。

It was only late in the global crisis , when greece admitted to lying about its numbers , that the markets woke up from their torpor into a sudden panic over sovereign risk .

直到金融危机晚期，希腊承认关于财政赤字和负债率撒了谎，市场才从麻木中惊醒，突然地对主权危机恐慌起来。

The failure of governments to make progress on a new climate deal in copenhagen last december had already prompted some debate among activists about whether a more confrontational style of campaigning was needed to stir the world from its torpor .

去年12月政府在哥本哈根对于推动签署新的气候条约之失败已经在社会活动者之间引起了一些探讨，即关于是否需要一种更加对抗的战斗姿态以将世界从麻木中惊醒。

If bitter torpor seems like the default human operating mode out there in the workaday world , may it not just be that a lot of people have jobs they don 't like , jobs they can 't like ?

如果没有那么多人做着他们不喜欢，喜欢不起来的工作，苦涩麻木如何会成为人类职业社会默认的普遍运作模式？