deadbeat

英 ['dedbi?t] 美['d?d'bit]

復數:?deadbeats;

deadbeat 懶人，二流子

即被打的半死不活的，引申義懶人，二流子。

deadbeat (n.): "worthless sponging idler," 1863, American English slang, perhaps originally Civil War slang, from dead (adj.) + beat. Earlier used colloquially as an adjectival expression to mean "completely beaten" (1821), and perhaps the base notion is of "worn out, good for nothing." It is noted in a British source from 1861 as a term for "a pensioner."
In England "dead beat" means worn out, used up. ... But here, "dead beat" is used, as a substantive, to mean a scoundrel, a shiftless, swindling vagabond. We hear it said that such a man is a beat or a dead beat. The phrase thus used is not even good slang. It is neither humorous nor descriptive. There is not in it even a perversion of the sense of the words of which it is composed. Its origin is quite beyond conjecture. ["Americanisms," in "The Galaxy," January 1878]
It also was used of a kind of regulating mechanism in pendulum clocks.

1. But do not get me wrong. My friend was not a deadbeat.: 但不要誤會我的意思, 我的朋友不是賴帳的人.

2. Should a deadbeat dad's nonpayments go on his credit report?: 一個不付贍養費的父親的不付款記錄應該放進信用報告嗎 ?

4. Everyone agreed that Mary's new boyfriend was nothing but a deadbeat.: 大家都認為瑪麗新交的男朋友是個游手好閑的家伙.

5. Such before, in deadbeat heart dark boast air hostess is clever!: 原來如此, 食客心里暗夸女服務員聰明!