gratuitous

英 [ɡrəˈtjuːɪtəs]

美 [ɡrəˈtuːɪtəs]

adj.  无正当理由(或目的)的; 无谓的

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Collins.1 / BNC.18672 / COCA.16720

牛津词典

adj.

• 无正当理由（或目的）的；无谓的
  done without any good reason or purpose and often having harmful effects
  1. gratuitous violence on television
     电视节目里无谓的暴力镜头

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 无理由的；不必要的；无缘无故的
  If you describe something asgratuitous, you mean that it is unnecessary, and often harmful or upsetting.
  1. There's too much crime and gratuitous violence on TV.
     电视里充斥着犯罪和无端的暴力。
  2. ...his insistence on offering gratuitous advice.
     他坚持要提供一些无谓的建议

英英释义

adj

• without cause
  1. a gratuitous insult
• unnecessary and unwarranted
  1. a strikers' tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life
  Synonym:needlessuncalled-for
• costing nothing
  1. complimentary tickets
  2. free admission
  Synonym:complimentarycostlessfreegratis(p)

双语例句

• According to our daily experiences of using the internet, we can also confirm that the visitation of many websites from here in China has been subject to gratuitous prohibition.
  根据我们日常的上网经验，我们也确认很多网站的访问在国内受到了无端禁止。
• It does not cover bonuses and allowances of gratuitous nature, end of year payment and payments in kind.
  但不包括属赏赠性质的花红及津贴、年终酬金及实物津贴。
• It's not a gratuitous failure and makes enough sense to see to the end.
  没有无缘无故的失败，我们可以看到它的结局。
• There's too much crime and gratuitous violence on TV.
  电视里充斥着犯罪和无端的暴力。
• But civility has been sacrificed to the gratuitous insult.
  然而礼貌却沦为无端侮辱的牺牲品。
• This paper puts forward a new edge-directed enhancing based anisotropic diffusion model. I did not want to be singled out for gratuitous punishment.
  本文提出了一个新的边缘定向增强扩散模型.我不愿意叫她提溜出来遭受这无缘无故的惩罚。
• I did not want to be singled out for gratuitous punishment.
  我不愿意叫她提溜出来遭受这无缘无故的惩罚。
• The author falsely depends on gratuitous assumption that.
  作者错误地依靠无根据的假设。
• Were it not for your gratuitous interference, the children would have quickly settled their dispute.
  要不是你多余的干涉，孩子们很快就会停止争论的。
• Except for a few gratuitous successes, which I am prepared to admit, systematic cross-breeding has never produced good results.
  除了少数几个我准备承认的毫无道理的成功的例子，系统的杂交养育从未产生过好的结果。