mindmap root((一个欺诈无<br>德懒惰怯懦<br>的敌人)) enemy stresses antagonism that may range from a deep hatred or a will to harm and destroy TO no more than active or evident dislike or a habit of preying on: a man with many friends and no ~ies. foe preferred in rhetorical or poetic use, stresses active fighting or struggle rather than emotional reaction: a ~ of all injustice. timid stresses lack of courage and daring and implies extreme cautiousness and a fear of venturing into the unfamiliar or the uncertain: a ~ investor impairing his capital in a vain search for complete security. timorous stresses a usually habitual domination by fears and apprehensions of often imaginary risks that leads one to shrink terrified from any exhibition of independence or self-assertion: a ~ personality unsuited to door-to-door selling. lazy suggests a disinclination to work or to take trouble and is likely to imply idleness or dawdling even when at work: his habitually ~ son. indolent suggests a love of ease and a settled dislike of movement or activity: the summer's heat made us all ~. slothful implies a temperamental inability to act promptly or speedily when promptness or speed is called for: the agency is usually ~ about fulfilling requests. （sloth是南美一种动物叫树懒，它生活在树上行动非常缓慢a South American animal that lives in trees and moves very slowly. 这个词常形容人又懒又慢，如房龙在《人类的故事the story of mankind》中说: "the human mind is slower than the proverbial turtle, is lazier than the well-known sloth"人类思维进步的速度比伊索寓言中的乌龟慢，比众人皆知的树懒懒） immoral implies a positive and active opposition to what is moral and may designate whatever is counter to accepted ethical principles or the dictates of conscience: ~ ideas and conduct. unmoral implies a lack of ethical perception and moral awareness or a disregard of moral principles: possessed the ~ conscience of a newborn baby. nonmoral implies that the thing described is patently outside the sphere where moral judgments are applicable: whether your car runs or not is a ~ issue. amoral is often applied to something that is not customarily exempted from moral judgment: a review that called the film ~. crooked may imply the presence of material curves, bends, or twists: a ~ road; or it may imply departure from a right and proper course and then usually suggests cheating or fraudulence: set up a ~ deal to force his partner out of the business. devious implies a departure from a direct or usual course: returned home by a ~ route to avoid the waiting bully; in application to persons or their acts or practices it is likely to imply unreliablility, shiftiness or trickiness, or sometimes obscurity: gained an inheritance by ~ means. oblique implies departure from a horizontal or vertical direction: an ~ line dividing a rectangle into two equal triangles; and can suggest indirection or lack of straightforwardness: made an ~ but damning attack on his character.