loser

名词 n.
/luzɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
    — In a two-horse race there is always one winner and one loser.
  2. Something of poor quality.
  3. A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life.
    — That guy is a born loser!
  4. A contemptible or unfashionable person. derogatory
    — Mike didn't work but insisted that Jewell have a job. He would stay home and do whatever — smoke pot, screw around. He was a total loser, and she picked up the slack. That's around the time that Mom met her soon-to-be-next husband. He immediately moved in. He was a loser, too, with the same work ethic Mike had.
  5. One who or that which loses something, such as extra weight, car keys, etc.
    — Another way to speed search (in general) is to order or bias the hypothesis space based on some heuristic. Suppose you are a habitual car key loser and that you keep track of where your keys turn up after each search.
  6. A losing proposition, one that is likely to lose or already has lost (such as a losing bet or, analogously, a predictably fruitless task or errand).
    — A new Guard came to town and decided to flex his muscles with George. We could have told him that he was on a loser but bright young men, then as now, know it all.
  7. A person convicted of a crime, especially more than once. slang
    — He's a three-time loser doing twenty years.

词形变化

losers plural

词源

From Middle English loser, losere, equivalent to lose + -er. In the sense of contemptible or worthless individual, perhaps an alteration of losel, which see.
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