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If you call someone no-account, you are saying they do not get much done because they are so lazy — a person of little worth, who will not try. It is informal American English, and it sounds a bit old, like something a might say. You can put it before a noun (a no-account guy) or talk about a no-account as a person. It is a real insult, though not a swear word; it judges someone’s character, not one lazy afternoon. Though actually, the idea sits on an older phrase, of no account, meaning “of no importance”.
沒出息的、不成材的（偏美式、帶點老派，罵人懶又沒用）
組成From no + account, with account in the old sense of “worth” or “importance”: a person of no account is a person who does not count for much.
同家族的字
- accountthe account here is “worth” or “importance”, as in of no account
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。
no-accountadj
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Of no value or merit; good-for-nothing; of no account.
- "There are ten or fifteen hound-dogs around the yard, and they are actually too no-account to scratch the fleas off."
- "Well, I'm sorry to have had to be the one to give you the bad news," he says. What bad news would that be? I'm wondering. That's just one more no-account Carter for me not to have to think on.
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。