n. 没用的人；饭桶
adj. 无用的；游手好闲的
ne'er-do-well //
名词 an improvident, irresponsible, or lazy person 无远见的人; 不负责任的人
形容词 useless; worthless 无用的
your ne'er-do-well schemes
an idle worthless person
同义词： goldbrick / goof-off / good-for-nothing / no-account / good-for-naught
... reprobate堕落的人 ne'er-do-well没用的人 cad卑鄙下流的男人、无赖...
无用的；游手好闲的
He never married and his last years were made wretched by anxiety over a ne'er do-well nephew (who was his ward) by poverty and by increasing ill health.
他终身未娶，晚年还过得很惨，他为不争气的侄子操碎了心，经济上极不宽裕，身体一日不如一日。
When Janet's ne'er-do-well brother (Richard Denning), who's having an affair with Madvig's sister (Bonita Granville), turns up dead, everyone assumes Madvig is the culprit.
Bertram was a bit of ne'er-do-well and met a gruesome end.
And the seller, Jerry Dodge, was a hard-luck ne'er-do-well with a criminal record and what his friends and family describe as limited intellect and diminishing prospects.