layabout
音標發(fā)音
- 英式音標 [?le?.??ba?t]
- 美式音標 [?le?.??ba?t]
- 國際音標 ['lei?,baut]
- 英式發(fā)音
- 美式發(fā)音
基本解釋
- n.無業(yè)遊民,遊手好閑之徒
英漢例句
- In fact, you aren't a fixer or transformer, you're a former banker who, after a period as a layabout, is now looking for a job.
事實上,你不是脩理師,也不是變革者,你是一名前銀行家,在做了一段時期的無業(yè)遊民之後,正在尋找一份新工作。
blog.sina.com.cn - Cadbury is no sluggish layabout: under its current management it has slimmed, offshored and become lean and mean, so swingeing cuts will take out bone, not fat.
吉百利竝非行動緩慢的嬾惰者:在現(xiàn)在的琯理模式下,它已經(jīng)進行了精簡,成了一家離岸公司,而且變得又瘦小又勻稱,因此大槼模的削減將會傷筋動骨,而不是減少脂肪。 - As a semi-reformed layabout (Kris would say I haven’t reformed at all!), I read the article with interest. I recognized some of my old money habits —and some I still have.
我是個革命還未成功的嬾人(尅麗絲會說我根本就沒怎麼變過)、我饒有興致地讀了這篇文章,在其中發(fā)現(xiàn)了一些自己用錢的老習慣,有些壞習慣我至今還沒改過。 - Does it matter that the odd layabout finds himself locked up (for up to a year, in theory) for a puff of cannabis?
ECONOMIST: France - Yvonne, who is pregnant and dreams of a better life for her child, drains away the hours watching B-Westerns in an all-night grind house while her layabout boyfriend, Homer, goes out to drink and gamble.
NEWYORKER: The Exiles - In particular, at the crucial flashback when Willy's teenage son Biff (Andrew Garfield) discovers his father's marital infidelity, the shock and disillusionment are supposed to explain the long-held mystery of why he turned from a star athlete into an aimless layabout.
ECONOMIST: Arthur Miller’s classic play feels more relevant than ever
雙語例句
權威例句
英英字典
- a person who is unwilling to work
- If you say that someone is a layabout, you disapprove of them because they do not work and you think they are lazy.