shiftlessness
懒惰
不求上进
例句
The very shiftlessness of the household rendered the misfortune a less terrifying one to them than it would have been to a striving family.
他们一家人,原来就都是昏聩无能, 茍且偷生,所以这种不幸,在他们看来,反道没有家道兴旺的人家看来那样可怕。
In the long period of his preparation, he must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts, incurring the disdain of the able who shoulder him aside.
在他长期的准备里,他一定要对时兴的艺术视而不见并不为所动,承受着被那能人挤开的痛苦。