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
- The management decided to economize by cutting the dead wood from the workforce, thus reducing the wages bill.
资方决定节省开支,裁减劳动力中的冗员,这样可以减少工资支出。 - Study on Using Wood-rotting Fungi to Treat Stumps of Dead Wood Caused by PWN ( Bursaphelenchus Xylophilus); The Maine woodsman sits on a stump whose rings number centuries of growth.
利用木腐菌处理松材线虫病病死树伐桩的研究缅茵州的伐木人坐在一段有数百年年轮的木桩上。 - If you cut out some of the dead wood, the firm might begin to show a profit.
如果你能裁减一些冗员,公司可能就会赢得。 - 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。 - 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 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - If you cut out all the dead wood, we might consider your book for publication.
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