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
- 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 - In many places, this is a blanket ban that prevents the grazing of animals and even the removal of leaf litter and dead wood.
在许多地方，这是一个完全的禁止政策，它禁止放牧，甚至禁止对枯枝落叶的采收。 - Low profits gave the company an excuse to clean out the dead wood.
盈利低微给了公司裁减冗员的借口。 - 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 - 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。 - Now, a log of dead wood drawn through a forest of legs;
有时成了一块死木头从森林般的腿丛里拖出。 - In stark contrast to developed economies, where the printing of words on dead wood is a sunset industry and print journalists are a dying breed, the Chinese newspaper industry is in rude health.
在发达经济体，平面媒体已是夕阳产业，报刊记者成为一个没落的职业；但与之形成鲜明对比的是，中国的报业却极富活力。 - Making dead wood more bless'd than living lips.
让死木比活嘴唇更有福缘。 - So I wrote him a letter, said: Once, I had the pleasure to visit your farm and found that there are many vector species of chrysanthemum trees, some already dead, wood has become soft.
于是我给他写了一封信，说：有一次，我有幸参观您的农场，发现那里长着许多矢菊树，有些已经死掉，木质已变得松软。 - I was dead tired, as you may fancy; and when I got to sleep which was not till after a great deal of tossing, I slept like log of wood.
我死累死累的，你可以想像得到，在经历了这样一番折腾后，我一倒下便睡得像根木头了。