Superfluous
[suː'pɜːflʊəs;sjuː-] or [sʊ'pɝflʊəs]
解释:
(a.) More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive; as, a superfluous price.
弗洛整理
同义词及近义词:
a. Excessive, superabundant, redundant, exuberant, unnecessary, needless, useless, expletive, more than enough.
埃尔温整理
同义词及反义词:
[See PETITION]
校对:露辛达
解释:
adj. more than enough: unnecessary or useless.—n. Superflū′ity a superfluous quantity or more than enough: state of being superfluous: superabundance.—adv. Super′fluously.—ns. Super′fluousness superfluity; Sū′perflux (Shak.) any superfluity.
编辑:莉齐
例句:
- In disproof of which superfluous remark Sir Leicester has indignantly written on the slate, I am not. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- This second cousin was a Middlemarch mercer of polite manners and superfluous aspirates. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- At length I gathered resolution to address him, in a pause of the tempest of his passion: Your repentance, I said, is now superfluous. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- This young man has left prints upon the stair-carpet which made it quite superfluous for me to ask to see those which he had made in the room. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- It was eminently superfluous to him to be told that he was reaping the consequences. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Tell me, at least, the expenses of the republic, for no doubt you intend to retrench the superfluous? 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- After being placed for an instant between blotting paper, to remove superfluous moisture, it is laid with the drawing downwards on the stone, which is slightly warmed. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- It may be necessary to have dykes on portions of the seashore; they may be superfluous elsewhere. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- And in doing this they were compelled to discard the precious values of art, religion and social life of which this superfluous energy is the creator. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- There is always a great deal of superfluous energy aroused. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The cloth is dipped into a body of starch, or the same is applied by hand, and then the superfluous starch squeezed out as the clothes are passed through the rollers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- God knows I thought this advice superfluous for some of us. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Hence, all superfluous cash was devoted to experimentation. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- I remember that I thought it, in form, more like a riding-habit with the superfluous skirt cut off, than anything else. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The pressure for likemindedness in action from this source is so great that it is quite superfluous to appeal to imitation. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- To feed all these superfluous mouths we shall need a part of our neighbour's land, and they will want a part of ours. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Comment is superfluous. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Which is something superfluous in him, for Nature has already screwed both pretty tight. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- As Mr. Yorke did not possess poetic imagination himself, he considered it a most superfluous quality in others. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Mrs Chivery considered the latter precaution superfluous, but said she would try. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Minute enactments are superfluous in good states, and are useless in bad ones. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- When profits are high, that sober virtue seems to be superfluous, and expensive luxury to suit better the affluence of his situation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Having secured me a place and a seat, he withdrew without asking a questionwithout obtruding a remark, without adding a superfluous word. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- The mechanical processes designed to separate the ore from its enclosing rock or other superfluous earthy matter called _gangue_ became known as _ore dressing_ and _ore concentrating_. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Miss Micawber I found made snug for stormy weather, in the same manner; with nothing superfluous about her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- I abandon to you, then, what is absolutely superfluous to me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- This was said with a careless, abstracted indifference, which showed that my solicitude was, at least in his opinion, wholly superfluous. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Our warning would have been superfluous; and now I am thankful we came too late to give it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Superfluous property is the creature of society. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- The engraver or finisher then takes charge of it, preparing the engraving for the routing department, where the superfluous metal is removed. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
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