- 1無所作為的（政治上常罵政府、國會不做事）
A do-nothing person or group is one that will not act. The complaint is not only “they are lazy at home.” In news and it is a sharp label for a government, a congress, or a leader who should pass laws or fix a problem, but just talks and waits. People say a do-nothing Congress, a do-nothing president, a do-nothing attitude. It is not a kind word. It says: you had a job, and you did nothing. You can also use it as a noun for a person who will not lift a finger — “He’s a do-nothing” — though the political use is the one that shows up in headlines. It feels informal and a bit angry, more like a jab than a calm description. Though actually, it is just the everyday phrase do nothing stuck together with , so the spelling still shows the complaint.
do-nothing 用來形容不肯行動的人或團體，重點不只是在家很懶，而是帶著責備的語氣。新聞和政治上常用它來狠批政府、國會或領導人，形式是「a do-nothing ＿＿」，例如 a do-nothing Congress、a do-nothing president、a do-nothing attitude。它的意思是你本來有工作，卻什麼都沒做。這個字也可以當名詞，指一個什麼都不肯動手的人，例句「He's a do-nothing」就是這樣用，不過標題裡最常見的還是政治上的用法。語氣偏口語，也帶點生氣，比較像挖苦，而不是平靜的描述。其實它就是 do nothing 用連字號串在一起，拼法本身就透露了那種抱怨。
From the word’s history
From the phrase do nothing.
來自片語 do nothing（什麼都不做）。
組成From the phrase do nothing (the verb do plus nothing), written as one hyphenated word. It is not from a single phrasal verb.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
do-nothingadj
- 1
Doing nothing, not taking any action.
- It became clear that a chronic do-nothing approach to the problem's management would no longer suffice.
- Manchester needs more railway capacity. Just how that is provided until the new platforms are built for HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail, I will leave for the experts, but a do-nothing approach is not going to be helpful and quite justifiably will create more arguments that the North is being ignored.
do-nothingnoun
- 1
A lazy person.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。