derelict

英 [ˈderəlɪkt]

美 [ˈderəlɪkt]

adj.  荒废的; 被弃置的; 破旧的
n.  无家可归者; 乞丐; 社会弃儿

复数：derelicts　

IELTSGRETEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.8529 / COCA.18085

牛津词典

adj.

• 荒废的；被弃置的；破旧的
  not used or cared for and in bad condition
  1. derelict land/buildings/sites
     荒废的土地；被废弃的建筑物；破旧的遗址

noun

• 无家可归者；乞丐；社会弃儿
  a person without a home, a job or property
  1. derelicts living on the streets
     流落街头的乞丐

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 破败的;弃置的;年久失修的
  A place or building that isderelictis empty and in a bad state of repair because it has not been used or lived in for a long time.
  1. Her body was found dumped in a derelict warehouse less than a mile from her home.
     在距离她家不到一英里的一座废弃仓库里发现了她遭弃的尸体。
• 无家可归者;露宿街头者
  Aderelictis a person who has no home or job and who has to live on the streets.

英英释义

noun

• a ship abandoned on the high seas
  Synonym:abandoned ship
• a person without a home, job, or property

adj

• in deplorable condition
  1. a street of bedraggled tenements
  2. a broken-down fence
  3. a ramshackle old pier
  4. a tumble-down shack
  Synonym:bedraggledbroken-downdilapidatedramshackletatterdemaliontumble-down
• failing in what duty requires
  1. derelict (or delinquent) in his duty
  2. neglectful of his duties
  3. remiss of you not to pay your bills
  Synonym:delinquentneglectfulremiss
• forsaken by owner or inhabitants
  1. weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse
  Synonym:abandoneddeserted
• worn and broken down by hard use
  1. a creaky shack
  2. a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape
  3. a flea-bitten sofa
  4. a run-down neighborhood
  5. a woebegone old shack
  Synonym:creakydecrepitflea-bittenrun-downwoebegone

双语例句

• On the shore children still play, and fishermen drop anchor nearby, but the hulks of derelict hotels stand vacant.
  海滨，孩子们依然在玩，而渔民已经在附近抛下了锚，但是被抛弃的旅馆的废壳空空的矗立在那儿。
• Godfrey Parke: The only difference between a derelict and a man is a job.
  一个玩忽职守的人和一个男人之间唯一的差别在于工作。
• The derelict farm would be plowed one last time, then sown with disappearing and all but unknown prairie seeds, and left to be.
  废弃的农场需要再耕一遍，然后撒上行将绝迹的和所有叫不上名字的草原种子，由它自由生长。
• When I first came here, the whole riverside was a derelict wasteland of crumbling docks, warehouses and factories.
  我刚到此地时，整个泰晤士河畔是块废弃地&拆得七零八落的码头、仓库以及工厂。
• Bagan, Myanmar, Burma Temples, 1984The derelict splendor of thousand-year-old Bagan is backdrop for local farmers.
  这座被遗弃的千年古城蒲甘的辉煌成了映衬当地农民的背景。
• Doors of derelict houses may be boarded and nailed up to prevent children from getting in.
  无人居住的房子，可以用木板把门户钉起来，以防止小孩进入。
• Derelict mines torpedoes bombs or other derelict weapons of war.
  丢弃的水雷、鱼雷、炸弹或其他被遗弃的战争武器。
• But his qualifications for running a derelict country with a nuclear arsenal and one of the world's five biggest armies are seriously in doubt.
  不过他够不够格运转一个拥有核武器和世界上五大部队之一的荒岛遗国，仍受到很大质疑。
• The already derelict garden grew increasingly unkempt.
  已被遗弃的花园变得愈来愈荒芜杂乱了。
• I smiled at his witty words. Yes, S city is just an imagined city, created from my opinions about those big, modern but spiritually derelict cities.
  他的机智的话让我微笑：是的，S市的确是一个虚拟的城市，来源于我对所有的摩登但是冷漠的大城市的印象。