deadbeat
英 ['dedbi?t]
美['d?d'bit]
- n. 游手好閑者；賴債不還的人；落魄者
- adj. 非周期的；直進式的
詞態變化
復數:?deadbeats;
中文詞源
deadbeat 懶人，二流子
即被打的半死不活的，引申義懶人，二流子。
英文詞源
- deadbeat (n.)
- "worthless sponging idler," 1863, American English slang, perhaps originally Civil War slang, from dead (adj.) + beat. Earlier used colloquially as an adjectival expression to mean "completely beaten" (1821), and perhaps the base notion is of "worn out, good for nothing." It is noted in a British source from 1861 as a term for "a pensioner."
In England "dead beat" means worn out, used up. ... But here, "dead beat" is used, as a substantive, to mean a scoundrel, a shiftless, swindling vagabond. We hear it said that such a man is a beat or a dead beat. The phrase thus used is not even good slang. It is neither humorous nor descriptive. There is not in it even a perversion of the sense of the words of which it is composed. Its origin is quite beyond conjecture. ["Americanisms," in "The Galaxy," January 1878]
It also was used of a kind of regulating mechanism in pendulum clocks.
雙語例句
- 1. But do not get me wrong. My friend was not a deadbeat.
- 但不要誤會我的意思, 我的朋友不是賴帳的人.
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- 2. Should a deadbeat dad's nonpayments go on his credit report?
- 一個不付贍養費的父親的不付款記錄應該放進信用報告 嗎 ?
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- 3. That deadbeat never worked a day in his life.
- 那位懶蟲終日游手好閑,一輩子也沒工作一天.
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- 4. Everyone agreed that Mary's new boyfriend was nothing but a deadbeat.
- 大家都認為瑪麗新交的男朋友是個游手好閑的家伙.
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- 5. Such before, in deadbeat heart dark boast air hostess is clever!
- 原來如此, 食客心里暗夸女服務員聰明!
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