dozy

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FIRE insurance was not given much thought until the Great Fire of London alerted people to the danger of combining dozy bakers and wooden houses.
在倫敦大火警示人們注意打盹的面包師傅與木結(jié)構(gòu)房屋這一致命組合的危險之前，火災(zāi)保險從未受到多少重視。
It was, and still is, based in Gütersloh, a dozy town in eastern Westphalia, where Mr Mohn's great-great-grandfather, Carl Bertelsmann, was a Protestant lithographer.
局特斯洛是西發(fā)利亞東部一座慵懶的小鎮(zhèn)，也是莫恩信奉新教的高曾祖父卡爾?貝塔斯曼當年作為一名平版工生活過的地方。
In the aggregate, however—thanks to a long tail of dozy firms—manufacturers in Britain score badly against their American, Japanese, German and Swedish counterparts.
然而，總的來說——由于一些半死不活的公司所帶來的長尾效應(yīng)——英國的制造企業(yè)與它們美國、日本、德國和瑞典的同行相比業(yè)績糟糕。

By then, even Japan's dozy retailers might have woken up.
ECONOMIST: Japanese retailing

If you are dozy, you are feeling sleepy and not very alert.
If you describe someone as dozy, you mean they are rather stupid and slow to understand things.