Dormant

(adj.) (of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct ; 'a dormant volcano' .

(adj.) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation; 'dormant buds'; 'a hibernating bear'; 'torpid frogs' .

(adj.) lying with head on paws as if sleeping .

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• The question instantly awakened one of my dormant remembrances in connection with the birthday festival. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• After what has been said in previous chapters, it will not seem so strange that Edison should have hundreds of dormant inventions on his hands. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• We may mean by potentiality a merely dormant or quiescent state--a capacity to become something different under external influences. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Fulton, always an ardent patriot, answered, At all events, whatever may be your reward, I will never consent to let these inventions lie dormant should my Country at any time have need of them. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• How many old recollections, and how many dormant sympathies, does Christmas time awaken! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I am full of dormant good qualities, if Rachel would only have helped me to bring them out! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• They alone are capable of giving ideas of relation, and of arousing the dormant energies of thought. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Bramah's press illustrates how the theories of one age often lie dormant, but if true become the practices of a succeeding age. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• With frogs and amphibious reptiles the dormant state is very common, and if the temperature is kept low by artificial means they may remain dormant for years. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It roused all my dormant recollections, my suspended sentiments of injury, and gave rise to the new one of revenge. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• For a number of years, however, the invention lay dormant and served no other purpose than that of a scientific curiosity or an amusing toy. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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