dead wood
英 [ˌded ˈwʊd]
美 [ˌded ˈwʊd]
n. 冗员; 废物
牛津词典
noun
- 冗员；废物
people or things that have become useless or unnecessary in an organization
柯林斯词典
- N-UNCOUNT 不再有用的人(或事物);累赘;冗余
People or things that have been used for a very long time and that are no longer considered to be useful can be referred to asdead wood.- ...the idea that historical linguistics is so much dead wood.
认为历史语言学完全冗赘无用的观点
- ...the idea that historical linguistics is so much dead wood.
双语例句
- Opportunity was taken to get rid of a great deal of inefficient material in the lower ranks, but in the higher ranks much dead wood was left untouched.
下面已利用时机解除了大批无用的人，而上面许多无用的人却碰都未碰过。 - Production must become more efficient. Some measures need to be taken to cut out the dead wood and streamline production
必须提高生产效率.应采取措施裁汰冗员，以提高生产效率 - Two, while the CEOs might claim otherwise, often it's not the so-called dead wood who are chopped during layoffs.
第二，在裁员的过程中，公司砍掉的，往往不是所谓的枯枝。 - Taxonomic Studies on Fallen Dead Wood Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes from Hainan and Yunnan Provinces of China
中国海南、云南两省凋落枯枝暗色丝孢真菌分类研究 - Making dead wood more bless'd than living lips.
让死木比活嘴唇更有福缘。 - The management decided to economize by cutting the dead wood from the workforce, thus reducing the wages bill.
资方决定节省开支，裁减劳动力中的冗员，这样可以减少工资支出。 - You have to cut away some of the dead wood.
你得把枯枝砍掉一些。从树上砍下一条树枝。 - Remove dead or damaged wood on your avocado tree at any time to help stimulate growth and prevent further damage to your tree.
随时剪除你的鳄梨树上的病死枝，以刺激增长并预防未来鳄梨树可能造成的危害。 - Studies on the technology of processing charcoal for the treatment of dead pine wood
加工活性炭处理松材线虫病死木技术的研究 - They are like clear-cutting a forest, not removing dead wood.
这样做就好比夷平整座森林，而不是砍掉几棵枯树。