Shiftless
['ʃɪftlɪs] or ['ʃɪftləs]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative; lazy; 'a shiftless student'; 'studied in a shiftless way' .
編輯:露西尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
編輯:波西亚
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Improvident, imprudent, prodigal, wasteful, without forecast, without foresight, careless of the future.
丹尼校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Thriftless, improvident, imprudent, wasteful, prodigal
ANT:Provident, prudent, careful,[See SHELTER]
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例句/造句/用法:
- It's a dreadful shiftless one, said aunty. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- But to have no time, no place, no order,--all going on in this shiftless way! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The community is eminently Portuguese--that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Such shiftless management, such waste, such confusion, I never saw! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- They were chiefly women, colliers' wives of the more shiftless sort. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
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