time-serving
adjective UK disapproving uk/ˈtaɪmˌsɜː.vɪŋ/ us/ˈtaɪmˌsɝː.vɪŋ/
得过且过的，当一天和尚撞一天钟的
not working very hard at your job, because you are just waiting until you reach the age at which you can stop work
He's a time-serving drone who works for America's Internal Revenue Service. 他是个得过且过的懒汉，在美国国税局工作。
These time-serving workers are not delivering improved standards. 这些得过且过的工人表现并没有什么提高。
曲意逢迎的;趋炎附势的
changing your ideas and opinions in order to make them more like those that are held by people in power, especially because you believe it will be to your advantage
time-serving politicians 趋炎附势的政客
He is a corrupt, time-serving career man. 他是一个腐败的、曲意逢迎的职场中人。
See: time-server
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- Critics tend to focus on the time-serving nature of much of the work here.
- She was an ambitious intriguer, and pursued a time-serving policy.
- time-serving, vote-chasing, career politicians