| 词汇 | lackadaisical |
| 词源 | lackadaisical. A lackadaisical person, a lethargic, listless, lazy person, was originally someone given to sighing “lackaday, lackaday,” a shortening of alack-a-day (“woe is the day”). Lau- rence Sterne may have coined lackadaisical from the earlier lackaday; anyway, he first recorded the word in his Sentimental Journey (1768). |
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