The Scientific Community isn't sitting idle.

科学界并没有坐以待毙。

So the old base sat idle for years, but not anymore.

因此，老基地闲置多年，但不再是了。

Having the ability to be helping and not just sitting idle.

我有能力帮助他人，而不是坐在那里无所事事。

Most clerks in the store sat idle because there were no customers.

由于没顾客上门，店里大部分的店员闲闲坐着没事干。

Hundreds of commercial airliners sat idle on taxiways, ramps even runways through much of the pandemic.

在疫情期间的大部分时间里，数百架商业飞机在滑行道、坡道甚至跑道上停飞。

Next year means one year of sitting idle.

明年意味着闲置一年。

But it might be better than sitting idle all the evening.

但这可能比整晚闲坐要好。

The FAA said the plane sitting idle could cause a critical valve to fail risking catastrophic dual engine power loss in flight.

美国联邦航空局表示，飞机闲置可能会导致一个关键阀门失灵，可能导致飞行中双引擎功率损失。

And it sat idle for years until 1979 when Norwegian Caribbean Lines purchased it and made an announcement that shocked the industry.

它闲置了多年，直到 1979 年诺唯真加勒比海轮船公司收购了它，并宣布了一项震惊业界的消息。

And while an army of robots sit idle, ready to be put to use assembling the vehicle, company officials insist they will soon be hiring rapidly.

尽管有一大批机器人闲置着，准备用来组装汽车，但公司官员坚称他们很快就会招人。

But once out on the runway, delays. Technical problems and poor visibility mean the plane, with more than 17,000 solar cells built into its wings, has to sit idle.

但一旦上了跑道, 就出现了延迟问题。技术问题和低能见度意味着这架飞机的机翼上超过17000块内置太阳能电池不得不闲置下来。

For example, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1.7 million doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine sat idle while European drug regulators weighed the risk of blood clots.

例如，在刚果民主共和国，170 万剂阿斯利康疫苗闲置，而欧洲药品监管机构正在权衡血栓风险。

In the meantime local soccer teams might draw a few thousand fans to a 20,000 seat stadium, and the venues will lose money during all the time that they sit idle as for converting them to hotels and offices.

与此同时，当地足球队可能会吸引数千名球迷来到一个20000个座位的体育场，而这些场馆在闲置期间将会赔钱，所以他们把场馆改造成了酒店和办公室。