- 1不中用的、沒出息的(人)。美式口語,跟 no-account 同一意思。
This is another way of saying no-account. You use it of a person — sometimes of a plan or a job — that you think is worthless: they do not work, they do not keep their word, they do not count. It is very informal American English, especially in the South of the United States, and it is a hard, dismissing word. You will mostly hear it in front of a noun: that no-count boyfriend, a no-count scheme. Older speakers still say no-account; no-count is the shorter form of the same idea. Though actually, it is not the grammar word for things you cannot count, like water or advice. That is a different no-count, written in a different place.
「no-count」是口語形容詞,意思是沒出息、不中用,多用來形容人,有時也用在計畫或工作上。它和 no-account 是同一個意思,只是形式較短。這是很口語的美式英文,尤其常見於美國南方,語氣直接,帶有貶低的意味。最常見的位置是放在名詞前,形式是「that no-count + 名詞」,例如 that no-count boyfriend。
另外,文法上說的不可數名詞(如 water、advice)用的是另一個 no-count,那是拼法相同但完全不同的詞。
From the word’s history
Probably an aphetic form of no-account.
可能是 no-account 省掉開頭的 a 音而來。
組成Probably a shortened form of no-account: the beginning of account was dropped (this kind of shortening is called aphesis).
同家族的字
- no-accountthe fuller form; no-count is a shortened version of the same word
原始詞典資料1 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。
no-countadj
- 1
slangOf no value.
- No-count. Even low-down. I still don't see how Loma could of married into that sharecropper white trash.
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