do-nothing

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A lazy person.
形容词 adj.
  1. Doing nothing, not taking any action. attributive
    — It became clear that a chronic do-nothing approach to the problem's management would no longer suffice.

词形变化

do-nothings plural

词源

词源 1
Essentially deverbal in nature, albeit not from a unitary phrasal verb, but from the phrase do nothing, which English expresses as a verb phrase containing a complement.
词源 2
Essentially deverbal in nature, albeit not from a unitary phrasal verb, but from the phrase do nothing, which English expresses as a verb phrase containing a complement.
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