2019-08-27 inertia

[definition]

[U] when no one wants to do anything to change a situation

惰性、不作为

多用来指某个政府、机构、部门： Bureaucratic/political inertia.

= inactivity

[sentence]

1. He stayed where he was, not because he got unlucky, but out of inertia.

2. Many projects in big companies are frequently abandoned through sheer inertia.

3. All this is intended to ensure that Mr/ Prayuth remains prime minister, despite his inertia and ineptitude.

4. In sub-Saharan Africa, only Tanzania, Ethiopia and Eritrea do not use a colonial language at all during primary education. Others use either English or French. That is partly because of inertia.

[Practice]

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。

The tourism of this city has not been well developed mainly because of governmental inertia.

The city's tourism resources are underused largely because of its governmental inertia.

The city's tourism resources are underused largely out of its governmental inertia.

Had it not been for the bureaucratic inertia, this city's tourism resources would be better exploited.