derelict
['derilikt]
a. 被抛弃, , 玩忽

n. 遗弃, 被遗弃, 玩忽者

[] 被弃

1. Several derelict cars are fished out of the canal every month.
   每月都运河里捞辆弃汽。
2. Doors of derelict houses may be boarded and nailed up to prevent children from getting in.
   住房，木板把门户起，孩。
3. I'm detached and moving toward the derelict spacecraft.
   准备脱往被遗弃船。

derelict
[ noun ]

1. a person without a home, job, or property

<noun.person>

2. a ship abandoned on the high seas

<noun.artifact>

[ adj ]

1. worn and broken down by hard use

<adj.all>
a creaky shack
a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape
a flea-bitten sofa
a run-down neighborhood
a woebegone old shack

2. forsaken by owner or inhabitants

<adj.all>
weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse

3. failing in what duty requires

<adj.all>
derelict (or delinquent) in his duty
neglectful of his duties
remiss of you not to pay your bills

4. in deplorable condition

<adj.all>
a street of bedraggled tenements
a broken-down fence
a ramshackle old pier
a tumble-down shack

Derelict \Der"e*lict\, n. (Law)
(a) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by
its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.
(b) A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for
cultivation or use.


Derelict \Der"e*lict\, a. [L. derelictus, p. p. of derelinquere
to forsake wholly, to abandon; de- + relinquere to leave. See
{Relinquish}.]
1. Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian;
left and abandoned; as, derelict lands.

The affections which these exposed or derelict
children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of
nature or assiduity but civility and opinion. --Jer.
Taylor.

2. Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful;
unfaithful.

They easily prevailed, so as to seize upon the
vacant, unoccupied, and derelict minds of his
[Chatham's] friends; and instantly they turned the
vessel wholly out of the course of his policy.
--Burke.

A government which is either unable or unwilling to
redress such wrongs is derelict to its highest
duties. --J. Buchanan.