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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - 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。 - The new manager wants to cut out the dead wood and streamline production.
新经理想精简机构以提高生产效率。 - 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。 - The results showed that not only the symptoms on cross sections of the dead elm wood but also the morphology of the fungi were different from those caused by Dutch elm disease.
从榆木枯萎症状，病菌形态及接种后无死亡现象的结果表明，均与世界流行的荷兰榆病无相似之处。 - He spent all day sawing up the dead wood.
他花了一天工夫把枯木锯成板材。 - Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, B.mucronatus and other nematodes separated from dead pine wood were detected using specific primer pair.
采用特异引物组合对枯死松树内分离的松材线虫、拟松材线虫及其他线虫进行检测。