shiftless

adj.

1. 没志气的；不思上进的；混日子的
   lazy and having no ambition to succeed in life

1. ADJ 偷懒的;没志气的;不思上进的;没出息的
   If you describe someone as shiftless, you mean that they are lazy and have no desire to achieve anything.
   1. ...a shiftless husband.
      不求上进的丈夫

1. This going to hunt up her shiftless husband at the inn was one of Mrs Durbeyfield's still extant enjoyments in the muck and muddle of rearing children.
   到酒店里走一趟，寻找她的没有出息的丈夫，仍然是德北菲尔德太太在抚养孩子的又脏又累的生活中的一件乐事。
2. The other has been lazy and shiftless.
   另一个懒惰成性，碌碌无为。
3. I will not have my grandbabies acting like shiftless, wild hobos.
   我不会让我的孙子像那些野孩子一样。
4. He called the young people shiftless, lazy and good-for-nothing.
   他说这些年轻人胸无大志、懒惰和无用。
5. His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people& his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all.
   他的父母是碌碌无为的庄稼人他的想象力根本从来没有真正承认他们是自己的父母。
6. Wu Kang was a shiftless fellow who changed apprenticeships all the time.
   吴刚是个懒惰而又不学无术的学徒。
7. Old Slattery, who clung persistently to his few acres, in spite of repeated offers from Gerald and John Wilkes, was shiftless and whining.
   老斯莱特里死死抱住他那几英亩土地，任凭杰拉尔德和约翰？威尔克斯一再出价购买也不放手，他就是这么个刻板而又爱发牢骚的人。
8. Agency cost in modern corporations leads mainly from the short-term behavior, the shiftless behavior and the manipulative behavior of executives, and from the hitchhiking behavior of shareholders.
   本文认为，现代公司中代理成本主要由经理的短期行为、偷懒行为、控制行为、以及股东的搭便车行为所致。
9. Since it is difficult to exactly measure the performance of individual and the existing of supervision cost, there are a lot of shiftless behavior in team production.
   在团队生产中，对个人工作实绩进行准确计量的困难及监督成本的存在，会导致大量的偷懒行为。

adj

1. lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative
   1. a shiftless student
   2. studied in a shiftless way