看绝望的主妇学高频短语:Deadbeat
Deadbeat: A worthless idler who sponges on his friends; a sponger, loafer. A person who is not willing to work, does not behave in a responsible way, and does not fit into ordinary society. If you refer to someone as a deadbeat, you are criticizing them because you think they are lazy and do not want to be part of ordinary society.
中文释义：在19世纪的美国，beat也意指“An idle, worthless, or shiftless fellow”（无所事事、到处闲逛的人），而dead一词作为副词时可以指totally, completely（完全地，用来加强程度）。所以deadbeat引申为 “吃软饭的人”、“游手好闲的人”。deadbeat还有有一个引申用法是DBD，也就是deadbeat dad，意思是不负责任的爸爸，指那些不承担抚养责任，不支付子女抚养费用的父亲。dead beat的拼写形式有三种，dead beat, dead-beat和deadbeat。这三种拼写方式没有明确的区分，都可以使用，比较常用的是deadbeat。dead beat除了用作名词之外也能用作形容词，意思是“筋疲力尽的”。
E.G.01: He’s a deadbeat; don’t count on getting that money back.(他就是个欠债不还的人，别指望从他身上把钱拿回来。)
E.G.02: But even if he was a deadbeat dad and a bit of a nut, Duffy had a dream as big as the Pacific Ocean and little could deter him.(但是尽管达菲是个有些疯狂的落魄父亲，可他的梦想却像太平洋一样大，几乎没有什么能够阻止他追寻自己的梦想。)
E.G.03: After the long climb up that mountain we were all dead beat.（花了好长时间爬上那座山之后，我们都筋疲力尽了。）
