happy-go-lucky [
'hæpɪgo`lʌkɪ]
a. 乐天的, 逍遥自在的, 随遇而安的
ad. 完全偶然地
- She goes through life in a happy-go-lucky fashion.
她一向乐天知命. - Try to be happy-go-lucky with your work and family life.
(对工作和家庭,做个乐天派的人。 - He had at once the impression of organization, very different from the old happy-go-lucky ways under his leadership.
他马上感到一切都组织得有条不紊,跟过去他当头儿那会儿松松垮垮的,劲儿可不大一样。
happy-go-lucky[ adj ]
cheerfully irresponsible
<adj.all>
carefree with his moneyfreewheeling urban youths
had a harum-scarum youth
Happy \Hap"py\ (h[a^]p"p[y^]), a. [Compar. {Happier}
(-p[i^]*[~e]r); superl. {Happiest}.] [From {Hap} chance.]
1. Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate;
successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy
expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen.
Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments
than the causes of them. --Boyle.
2. Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the
feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of
enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace,
tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous; as, happy hours,
happy thoughts.
Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord. --Ps.
cxliv. 15.
The learned is happy Nature to explore,
The fool is happy that he knows no more. --Pope.
3. Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.
One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in
a in a rejoinder. --Swift.
{Happy family}, a collection of animals of different and
hostile propensities living peaceably together in one
cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons
who are in fact mutually repugnant.
{Happy-go-lucky}, trusting to hap or luck; improvident;
easy-going. ``Happy-go-lucky carelessness.'' --W. Black.
- So while Bush joshed, the viewers saw conflicting images: a happy-go-lucky president in one corner of the screen and flag-draped coffins in another.
- "He was a real nice guy, real happy-go-lucky," MacKenzie said. "But anyone can be pushed too far.
- The edges have been softened; the mechanical high-jinks in the prologue act are still tedious, but the singing comedians get a looser rein later, and soon hit upon the right improvisatory, happy-go-lucky spirit.