Undue
[ʌn'djuː] or [,ʌn'du]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) not yet payable; 'an undue loan' .
(adj.) not appropriate or proper (or even legal) in the circumstances; 'undue influence'; 'I didn't want to show undue excitement'; 'accused of using undue force' .
(adj.) lacking justification or authorization; 'desire for undue private profit'; 'unwarranted limitations of personal freedom' .
杰弗里整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not due; not yet owing; as, an undue debt, note, or bond.
(a.) Not right; not lawful or legal; improper; as, an undue proceeding.
(a.) Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty; disproportioned; excessive; immoderate; inordinate; as, an undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution of law.
埃莉诺校對
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Unsuitable, improper, excessive, inordinate, immoderate.
英格拉姆編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. not due or owing: improper: immoderate: excessive.—n. Undue′ness.
手打:斯坦
例句/造句/用法:
- An undue love of Self leads to the most monstrous crimes and occasions the greatest misfortunes both in States and Families. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- No, I am not conscious of undue excitement. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Had she shown an undue eagerness for victory? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- She will not even permit of undue familiarity. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In the preceding Section we saw that undue pressure of a gas may cause explosion. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The weapon is air cooled and can be fired steadily for about 10 minutes without undue heating. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- This chapter has run to undue length, but it must not close without one citation from high authority as to the service of the military telegraph corps so often referred to in it. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- What a blessing it is, when undue influence does not survive the grave! 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Yet she had not to complain of an undue shortening of existence; her faded person shewed that life had naturally spent itself. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Damp clothing should never be worn, because the moisture in it tends to evaporate at the expense of the bodily heat, and this undue loss of heat from the body produces chills. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- But even in such things there was an undue reliance upon mere custom, followed blindly rather than understandingly. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Undue humility makes tyranny; weak concession creates selfishness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- And undue absorption at the outset in the physical object of sense hampers this growth. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- There was no undue loss of life in reaching the lower end of Monterey, except that sustained by Garland's command. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- While I do not propose to cause them any undue annoyance or loss, I cannot consent to leave myself under any restraint by stipulations. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Master of the workhouse,' rejoined Mr. Bumble, slowly and impressively, to check any undue familiarity the stranger might otherwise assume. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Ever and anon she spread her satin dress over an undue portion of the bench, or laid her gloves or her embroidered handkerchief upon it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- In the calm with which you learnt you had become suddenly rich, I read a mind clear of the vice of Demas:--lucre had no undue power over you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The next point was to secure a joint between contiguous rails such as would permit of the passage of several thousand amperes without introducing undue resistance. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It is possible to induce undue and crippling dependence upon sense-presentations. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
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