词汇 | layabout |
释义 | layabout noun[ C ] informaluk /ˈleɪ.əˌbaʊt/ us /ˈleɪ.əˌbaʊt/ a person who is unwilling to work游手好闲的人 Synonyms bum(PERSON)USinformal loafer(LAZY PERSON) Laziness and lazy people bludger bone idleidiom bum around CBA clock-watcher deadbeat indolent indolently lazily laziness lazy lie shirker skiver slacker slackness slob unambitious vegetable work-shy Examples of layaboutlayabout They, too, have their public resorts, promenades for layabouts to walk in, resorts that bear some relation to ours, but which only go to show the futility of the endeavour. Those two months are the beginning of the layabout life which no teacher and no pupil wants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These people, categorised as layabouts, should have to report every morning to the local authority for community work before being entitled to benefit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When it suits another, they are layabouts, strike-bound and always causing trouble. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The prejudice is that if someone is unemployed he is a scrounger and a layabout. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I suspect that he thinks that there is a lot of malingering, and there are many layabouts, behind the figures on absenteeism and ill health. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These are not layabouts; they are people waiting for the opportunity which we have to offer them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe that they are idle layabouts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has criticised their sickness rates, wastage rates and clear-up rates, and has generally presented the police force as a bunch of lazy, ill layabouts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 First, those on invalidity benefit are not layabouts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some of my constituents have accused me of introducing a layabout's charter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not all layabouts who just like living off the state. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Constituents write to me and say that layabouts in their street laugh at them for going to work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us face it; there are a few layabouts who do not want to work, but there are a very few. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The taxpayers are sick and tired of financing these layabouts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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