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A layabout is a lazy person who does not work and does not mean to — someone who lies around all day. It is informal British English, a bit old-fashioned, and if you say it to someone's face. Newspapers and relatives use it. Though actually, it is not an official word for “unemployed”; it is a judgment. The picture in the word is someone who lays about the house, doing nothing.
遊手好閒的人;懶人(帶嫌棄口氣)
組成From lay + about: a person who lays about (lies around).
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
layaboutnoun/ˈleɪəˌbaʊt/
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slanginformalA lazy person.
- “That’s better. Gilbert Goodie! I should have known it was you. The one-legged layabout. The uni-ped idler. The stumpy skiver. Stealing coins from a wishing well now, are we? You couldn’t make it up!”
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。