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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Because of lack of circulate the accurate state judgment and the health analysis to the system, it should carry on a great deal of otiose maintain to the system equipment for safety consideration.
  由于缺乏对系统运行准确的状态判断和健康分析，出于安全的考虑，对系统设备进行了大量不必要的维修，大大提高了运行成本。
• 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！
• 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。
• I feel I careful character, will let me request to work more perfect completion, so can reduce to make some otiose mistakes.
  我觉得我谨慎的个性，会让我要求工作比较完美的完成，这样可以减少犯些不必要的错误。
• Modern: Such questions are otiose ( Comte);
  这些问题是多余的（孔德）；
• DPC ( Distributed parallel computing), a studied highlight, implements HPC via cooperation of otiose CPU based on Local Area Network ( LAN).
  一个研究热点问题-分布式并行计算（DPC）是使用局域网上的闲置CPU资源协同实现的高性能计算。