词：inertia
inertial/inerially
= inactivity, apathy, immobility, lethargy, listlessness, passivity, sloth, unresponsiveness
英英释义：when no one wants to do anything to change a situation
例句：He stayed where he was, not because he got unlucky, but out of inertia.
这个out of是because of的意思。
一般+ bureaucratic/govermental 和 political 。
through sheer inertia 十足的不作为
1）翻译下面的句子：
这座城市的旅游资源没有好好开发利用，主要原因是政府的不作为。
It is mainly/largely because of governmental inertia that the tourism resources of this city has not been exploited yet.
（参考翻译：The city's tourism resources are underused largely because of its governmental inertia. 或 The city's tourism resources are underused largely out of its governmental inertia. 或 Had it not been for the bureaucratic inertia, this city's tourism resources would be better exploited.）
造句：
很多有意义的目标，有用的想法和可以实现的梦想在我们的人生中都静静地逝去了，并非因为这些会有多难，而是因为我们身上经常表现为拖延症的惰性。
Many meaningful aims, useful ideas and achievable dreams in our life passed quietly, not because of how different they would be, but our inertia, which always manifests as procrastination.
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