Shiftless

(adj.) lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative; lazy; 'a shiftless student'; 'studied in a shiftless way' .

编辑:露西尔

• 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.

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