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
- Remove ( dead wood, branches, etc) by cutting The land cracked and the springs dried up and the cattle listlessly nibbled dry twings.
剪去(枯木、枯枝等)土地龟裂,泉水干枯,牛儿无精打采地啃着干树枝。 - If you cut out all the dead wood, we might consider your book for publication.
如果你删去所有多余的章节,我们可以考虑出版你的书。 - Low profits gave the company an excuse to clean out the dead wood.
盈利低微给了公司裁减冗员的借口。 - Studies on the technology of processing charcoal for the treatment of dead pine wood
加工活性炭处理松材线虫病死木技术的研究 - Two, while the CEOs might claim otherwise, often it's not the so-called dead wood who are chopped during layoffs.
第二,在裁员的过程中,公司砍掉的,往往不是所谓的枯枝。 - In_stream wood is defined as dead wood (>10 cm diameter and>1 m length) in the stream channel.
溪流倒木是指在河流中长度大于1m、直径大于10cm的死木。 - Production must become more efficient. Some measures need to be taken to cut out the dead wood and streamline production
必须提高生产效率.应采取措施裁汰冗员,以提高生产效率 - They are like clear-cutting a forest, not removing dead wood.
这样做就好比夷平整座森林,而不是砍掉几棵枯树。 - 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。 - But much of it is dead wood.
但官僚机构的多数是无用的冗员。