| 释义 |
no-account, a. orig. U.S.
Of no account, importance, value, or use; insignificant, worthless. (See also no-'count a.)
1845Spirit of Times 1 Feb. 583/2 I'll just tell you that the land I'm after is a d-d, little, no-account quarter section, that nobody would have but me. 1886Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Sept. 4/1 We submit to be..treated as no-account people in all affairs of State. 1898H. S. Canfield Maid of Frontier 109 It seems to me..that Charlie is gettin mighty no account. 1900Conrad Lord Jim v. 47 The other two no-account chaps spotted their captain, and began to move towards us. 1902G. H. Lorimer Lett. Merchant vi. 69 A mailing-clerk so no-account as to be writing personal letters in office hours. 1936‘J. Tey’ Shilling for Candles v. 51 ‘You mean she thinks he's a wrong 'un?’ ‘No. Just no account.’ Ibid. vii. 71 We both felt no-account and were afraid people'd find it out. 1952C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil's Aeneid xi. 246 Are we, we no-account souls, to litter the plains? 1973M. Mackintosh King & Two Queens xii. 180 I'm only a no-account Irisher, but I like to pay my debts.
B. n. A ‘no-account’ person.
1896‘Mark Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Sept 523 Who ever had anything agin that poor trifling no-account? 1936J. Dos Passos Big Money 169 The child of a no-account like Fred. 1970W. Garner Puppet-Masters xxx. 222 Why is a no-account like Lindsay collected from a police court by a Special Branch cop? 1973Philadelphia Inquirer (Today Suppl.) 14 Oct. 43/2 Others—those Gypsies most respected and strongest in the community—will not challenge him because they believe he is a ‘no-account’. |