do-nothing

短语

n. 懒鬼, 安于现状者, 游手好闲者, 无为者, 懒惰者 a. 游手好闲的, 无为的, 懒惰的

词形变化

do-nothings 复数 do-nothings

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A lazy person.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Doing nothing, not taking any action.

    定语

    It became clear that a chronic do-nothing approach to the problem's management would no longer suffice.

词汇关系

词源

Essentially deverbal in nature, albeit not from a unitary phrasal verb, but from the phrase do nothing, which English expresses as a verb phrase containing a complement.

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