dispensable
英 [dɪs'pensəbl]
美[dɪ'spɛnsəbl]
- adj. 可有可无的；非必要的
助记提示
1. 本义是“可免除的，可豁免的”，既然是可免除的，当然就是不重要的，由此引申为：可有可无的；非必要的。
中文词源
dispensable 可有可无的
来自dispense, 分配，分发。即可分发出去的，可有可无的。
英英释意
- 1. capable of being dispensed with or done without;
- "dispensable items of personal property"
英文词源
- dispensable (adj.)
- 1530s, "subject to dispensation," from Medieval Latin dispensabilis, from dispensare (see dispense). Meaning "that can be done without" is from 1640s. Related: Dispensability.
考试真题
- Amid the current concerns about the federal deficit, reaching toward the stars seems a dispensable luxury—as if saving one-thousandth of a single year's budget would solve our problems.
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实用场景例句
- They looked on music and art lessons as dispensable.
- 他们认为音乐课和美术课是可有可无的。
牛津词典
- All those people in the middle are dispensable.
- 所有那些立场骑墙的人都可要可不要。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Send an army of dispensable, limited agents coordinated on a task, and set them loose.
- 他提议用一次性火箭发射鞋盒大小的太阳能推土机舰队去入侵月球.
期刊摘选
- Most candidates are photography fans with dispensable income.
- 广泛的参与人群普遍是摄影爱好者、发烧友,消费能力强.
期刊摘选
- Thought the instant noodles worked as staple food the age the staple food are also dispensable.
- 想,速食面当主食的年代,主食也就可有可无了.
期刊摘选
- Otherwise Miller would become a dispensable figurehead.
- 否则米勒就会变成可有可无的傀儡.
辞典例句
- Finally, Mr. Yu has been a target known as dispensable, and that is to buy cars.
- 最后一个目标被于先生称为可有可无, 这就是购车.
期刊摘选
- Both neither is welfare pay, not be dispensable more.
- 既不是福利待遇, 更不是可有可无的.
期刊摘选
- Some conductors do not agree that their services might dispensable.
- 有些指挥不赞同奥菲斯这种模式,认为这种模式没有必要.
期刊摘选
- He repents having compensated the dispensable pension for fear of penalty.
- 他后悔因害怕处罚而补偿了不必要的养老金.
期刊摘选
- Wherever conductors are needed, insulators will be in dispensable.
- 凡是需要导体的地方, 绝缘体就必不可少.
期刊摘选
- Delete what is dispensable and give more prominence to the essentials.
- 可以不说的去掉,该说的就可以更突出.
《简明英汉词典》
- If you want to run the enterprise well, none of these two qualifications is dispensable.
- 如果想把企业经营好, 这两个条件缺一不可.
期刊摘选
- Consider the design conflict of an ordinary dispensable razor.
- 剃须刀必须很锋利以便能方便的剃须.
期刊摘选
- Neither of these two approaches is dispensable.
- 照顾全局,从实际出发,这两个观点缺一不可.
期刊摘选
- Person, it is affection animal, dispensable?
- 人, 是情感动物, 可有可无?
期刊摘选
- Flexible rectangular waveguide is a dispensable component for the connection between microwave equipment and feeder.
- 矩形软波导是微波设备和馈线之间连接必不可少的一种器件.
期刊摘选
- Since none of the four is dispensable, they are equally important.
- 实际上,这四种力量既然是缺一不可的, 所以是同等重要的.
《简明英汉词典》
- All those people in the middle are dispensable.
- 所有那些立场骑墙的人都可要可不要。
辞典例句
- They looked on music and art lessons as dispensable.
- 他们认为音乐课和美术课是可有可无的。
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