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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.
在伦敦大火警示人们注意打盹的面包师傅与木结构房屋这一致命组合的危险之前，火灾保险从未受到多少重视。
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.
局特斯洛是西发利亚东部一座慵懒的小镇，也是莫恩信奉新教的高曾祖父卡尔•贝塔斯曼当年作为一名平版工生活过的地方。
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，总的来说——由于一些半死不活的公司所带来的长尾效应——英国的制造企业与它们美国、日本、德国和瑞典的同行相比业绩糟糕。

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.