redundant

• adj. 多余的，过剩的；被解雇的，失业的；冗长的，累赘的

来自拉丁语 redundare,流出，来自 red-,往后，-und,水，水流，词源同 undulate,abound.即流出 的，多余的，引申词义被裁员的。

1. more than is needed, desired, or required;

"trying to lose excess weight"

"found some extra change lying on the dresser"

"yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"

"skills made redundant by technological advance"

"sleeping in the spare room"

"supernumerary ornamentation"

"it was supererogatory of her to gloat"

"delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"

"extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"

"surplus cheese distributed to the needy"

2. use of more words than required to express an idea;

"a wordy gossipy account of a simple incident"

"a redundant text crammed with amplifications of the obvious"

3. repetition of same sense in different words;

"`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"

"the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological"

"at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant

redundant

redundant: [17] Etymologically, something that is redundant ‘overflows’ because there is too much of it. The word comes from the present participle of Latin redundāre ‘flow back, overflow’ (source also of English redound [14]). This was a compound verb formed from the prefix re- ‘back, again’ and undāre ‘rise in waves, surge’, a derivative of unda ‘wave’ (source of English undulate).
=> redound, surround, undulate

redundant (adj.)

1590s, from Latin redundantem (nominative redundans), present participle of redundare, literally "overflow, pour over; be over-full;" figuratively "be in excess," from re- "again" (see re-) + undare "rise in waves," from unda "a wave" (see water (n.1)). Of persons, in employment situations, from 1928, chiefly British. Related: Redundantly.

In time it should help restrain costs by eliminating redundant tests, preventing drug interactions, and helping doctors find the best treatments.

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Enrollees would have to pay more money for many services out of their own pockets, and that would encourage them to think twice about whether an expensive or redundant test was worth it.

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Conversion of paper to electronic medical records will help eliminate redundant tests and prevent drug interactions.

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to be made redundant from your job

成为冗员而被裁减

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redundant employees

受裁汰的员工

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The picture has too much redundant detail.

这幅画中不必要的细节太多。

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My husband was made redundant late last year.

我丈夫去年年底被裁了。

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...a redundant miner.

失业的矿工

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Changes in technology may mean that once-valued skills are now redundant.

技术上的革新可能意味着曾经被重视的技术现在已变得多余。

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...the conversion of redundant buildings to residential use.

将空置大楼改造为住宅

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Any CEO who has to make half the force redundant needs to feel a similar detachment.

任何一名不得不裁掉一半员工的首席执行官,都需要具备类似的超脱感.

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Seventy men at the factory were made redundant.

该厂有七十人作为冗员被裁.

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They made me redundant.

他们使我成了超编人员.

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Redundant characters often work as checking devices, as in parity and other checks.

冗余字符通常用作校验手段, 如奇偶校验或其它校验.

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Prediction of muscle force is a redundant problem, which is solved by optimum methods.

肌肉力的预测是个冗余问题, 需通过优化方法进行求解.

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Thanks to global warming, however, the argument might soon become redundant.

但由于全球变暖, 这样的争辩也许将会成为多余.

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The company has paid off some redundant employees.

公司在发放工资后解雇了一些多余的雇员.

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Fifty welders were declared redundant.

已公布削减五十名焊工.

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In a redundant switched network it is possible for switches to learn the wrong information.

在备援的交换网路中,交换器是有可能学习到错误的资讯.

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A decentralized, redundant organization can flex without distorting its function, and thus it can adapt.

那种分散化 、 包含冗余的组织能够在不影响其功能的前提下发生改变, 因此它能够适应.

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Software include watchdog, redundant instruction, and digital filtering.

软件措施有看门狗 、 余指令和数字滤波等.

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U.S. diplomacy and power in the region have tended to make It'somewhat redundant.

美国在这一地区的外交使团和权力机构倾向于使之显得有些多余.

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Though this is redundant, layering security is a positive thing.

虽然这显得有些多余, 但对于安全仍然是一个积极的做法.

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And has carried on the analysis to the building redundant project origin and the malpractice.

并对重复建设的起源和弊端进行了剖析.

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A great poet will also not use a single redundant word.

高明的诗人用字非常“吝啬”,诗里头多一个字都不行.

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Skills which have been made redundant by technological advance.

由于技术进步而变得多余的技术.

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The company is caught in a double bind. If it doesn't modernize it won't make money, but if it does modernize they'll have to make people redundant because they won't need them any more.

这家公司进退两难. 不实行现代化就无法盈利, 要实行现代化就会有冗员,因为公司将不再需要他们.

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There are too many redundant words in this book.

这本书里多余的词太多.

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In the constitution of backtracking algorithm, the solution space tree has the massive redundant solutions.

回溯法构成的解空间树中存在着大量的重复解,降低了搜索的效率.

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These features of the gospels are neither simple history nor redundant embroidery.

福音书中的这些故事既不是简单的历史,也不是冗余的修饰.

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This word is redundant, it can be left out.

这个字是多余的, 可以去掉.

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Skills have been made redundant by machines.

由于使用机器,手艺已变得多余.

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