otiose

英 [ˈəʊtiəʊs]

美 [ˈoʊʃioʊs]

adj.  多余的; 无用的

GRE

BNC.36738

牛津词典

adj.

• 多余的；无用的
  having no useful purpose
  1. an otiose round of meetings
     一轮无用的会议

英英释义

adj

• disinclined to work or exertion
  1. faineant kings under whose rule the country languished
  2. an indolent hanger-on
  3. too lazy to wash the dishes
  4. shiftless idle youth
  5. slothful employees
  6. the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy
  Synonym:faineantindolentlazyslothfulwork-shy
• producing no result or effect
  1. a futile effort
  2. the therapy was ineffectual
  3. an otiose undertaking
  4. an unavailing attempt
  Synonym:futileineffectualunavailing
• serving no useful purpose
  1. otiose lines in a play
  2. advice is wasted words
  3. a pointless remark
  4. a life essentially purposeless
  5. senseless violence
  Synonym:pointlesspurposelesssenselesssuperfluouswasted

双语例句

• Toward you, I will push away some otiose social partieses but some go home early, because I know that you would be very lonesome at home, and will be surprised for my load to be subjected to fear.
  我向你保证，我将推开一些不必要的应酬而早些回家，因为我知道你会在家里很寂寞，而且会为我担惊受怕。
• For this set work that has strong race and modern feeling want to let local piano teacher of our country and learners can accept is very to have a difficulty is also otiose.
  对于这样一套具有强烈民族性和现代感的作品，要想让我国国内的钢琴教师与学习者都能够接受是极具难度也是不必要的。
• What can the US Government do to atone its failure to safeguard and protect these Iraqi national treasures? It is otiose to say that no amount of monetary recompense to Iraq can adequately compensate it for the irreplaceable loss of its sacred cultural heritage.
  美国要如何弥补它的过失呢？伊拉克所失去的珍贵文化遗产是金钱所不能补偿的。
• Modern: Such questions are otiose ( Comte);
  这些问题是多余的（孔德）；
• Objective To study the antitumor activity of otiose and coumarin in novobiocin.
  目的研究新生霉素的结构单元诺维糖和香豆素的抗肿瘤活性。
• But such doing is complete otiose, when the person that should visit discovers this website is not the content that they want, they can leave instantly.
  但是这样做是完全没有用的，当访问者发现这个网站不是他们想要的内容的时候，他们就会立即离开。
• Because abandon otiose burden, the life would be more fine.
  因为抛弃了不必要的包袱，生活才会更美好。
• It is otiose to say that no amount of monetary recompense to Iraq can adequately compensate it for the irreplaceable loss of its sacred cultural heritage.
  伊拉克所失去的珍贵文化遗产是金钱所不能补偿的。
• This times is peripheral, you can choose only with peripheral right peripheral, be opposite with profundity peripheral it is otiose.
  这个时代是肤浅的，你只能选择以肤浅对肤浅，以深刻对肤浅是没有用的。
• If the again good domain name with achieve content again good formerly is not known by engine also be otiose!
  再好的原创内容再好的域名假如不被引擎知道也是没有用的！