Superfluous
[suː'pɜːflʊəs;sjuː-] or [sʊ'pɝflʊəs]
解釋/意思:
(a.) More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive; as, a superfluous price.
弗洛整理
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Excessive, superabundant, redundant, exuberant, unnecessary, needless, useless, expletive, more than enough.
埃尔温整理
同義詞及反義詞:
[See PETITION]
校對:露辛达
解釋/意思:
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.
編輯:莉齐
例句/造句/用法:
- In disproof of which superfluous remark Sir Leicester has indignantly written on the slate, I am not. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- This second cousin was a Middlemarch mercer of polite manners and superfluous aspirates. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- At length I gathered resolution to address him, in a pause of the tempest of his passion: Your repentance, I said, is now superfluous. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- 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. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- It was eminently superfluous to him to be told that he was reaping the consequences. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Tell me, at least, the expenses of the republic, for no doubt you intend to retrench the superfluous? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- 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·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- It may be necessary to have dykes on portions of the seashore; they may be superfluous elsewhere. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- 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. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- There is always a great deal of superfluous energy aroused. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- 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. 世紀發明.
- God knows I thought this advice superfluous for some of us. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Hence, all superfluous cash was devoted to experimentation. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I remember that I thought it, in form, more like a riding-habit with the superfluous skirt cut off, than anything else. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The pressure for likemindedness in action from this source is so great that it is quite superfluous to appeal to imitation. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- To feed all these superfluous mouths we shall need a part of our neighbour's land, and they will want a part of ours. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Comment is superfluous. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Which is something superfluous in him, for Nature has already screwed both pretty tight. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- As Mr. Yorke did not possess poetic imagination himself, he considered it a most superfluous quality in others. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Mrs Chivery considered the latter precaution superfluous, but said she would try. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Minute enactments are superfluous in good states, and are useless in bad ones. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- When profits are high, that sober virtue seems to be superfluous, and expensive luxury to suit better the affluence of his situation. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- 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. 維萊特.
- 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. 世紀發明.
- Miss Micawber I found made snug for stormy weather, in the same manner; with nothing superfluous about her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I abandon to you, then, what is absolutely superfluous to me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- 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. 簡·愛.
- Our warning would have been superfluous; and now I am thankful we came too late to give it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Superfluous property is the creature of society. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The engraver or finisher then takes charge of it, preparing the engraving for the routing department, where the superfluous metal is removed. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
編輯:莉齐