Word

good-for-naught

noun

废物；无用之人

核心释义

an idle worthless person

懒惰无用的人；游手好闲的人；饭桶；无用的人

His brother is a good-for-naught who never holds a job for more than a month.

他的弟弟是个游手好闲的人，从来没有一份工作能干超过一个月。

用法提示：此处good-for-naught用作名词，指一个无用、不务正业的人。

Don't rely on him to help; he's just a good-for-naught with no sense of responsibility.

别指望他帮忙；他不过是个毫无责任感的饭桶。

用法提示：good-for-naught作名词，表示一个没有价值、不可靠的人。

The old man called his lazy son a good-for-naught and kicked him out of the house.

老人骂他懒惰的儿子是个无用的人，并把他赶出了家门。

用法提示：good-for-naught用作名词，在直接引语中指一个没用的人。

可数名词，含贬义，前面通常需要冠词或限定词。

Everyone in the village knew him as a good-for-naught.

村里的人都知道他是个游手好闲的无用之人。

定冠词形式用于特指上文提到或双方已知的那个人。

The good-for-naught spent the whole day sleeping on the sofa.

那个无用之人整天躺在沙发上睡觉。

复数直接在词尾加 -s，用来泛指多个无用之人。

The foreman had no patience for good-for-naughts.

工头对游手好闲的人毫无耐心。

易错句子He is good-for-naught; he never does any work.正确表达He is a good-for-naught; he never does any work.

good-for-naught 是可数名词，指“无用的人”，单数泛指时前面必须加不定冠词 a。汉语没有冠词，学习者容易漏掉。

易错句子Don't trust that good-for-not.正确表达Don't trust that good-for-naught.

naught 意为“无、零”，与否定词 not 拼写相近但意思不同；写成 good-for-not 属于拼写错误，应保留 naught。

易错句子Those two men are good-for-naught.正确表达Those two men are good-for-naughts.

指多个人时，可数名词 good-for-naught 要用复数形式 good-for-naughts，与 two、those 保持一致。