Shiftless
['ʃɪftlɪs] or ['ʃɪftləs]
解释:
(adj.) lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative; lazy; 'a shiftless student'; 'studied in a shiftless way' .
编辑:露西尔--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management.
编辑:波西亚
同义词及近义词：
a. Improvident, imprudent, prodigal, wasteful, without forecast, without foresight, careless of the future.
丹尼校对
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Thriftless, improvident, imprudent, wasteful, prodigal
ANT:Provident, prudent, careful,[See SHELTER]
埃文编辑
例句:
- It's a dreadful shiftless one, said aunty. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- But to have no time, no place, no order,--all going on in this shiftless way! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- The community is eminently Portuguese--that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Such shiftless management, such waste, such confusion, I never saw! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- They were chiefly women, colliers' wives of the more shiftless sort. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
埃文编辑