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.
  1. ...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

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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
• Structure and Application of A New High-efficiency and High-Accuracy Slotting Arbor The new manager want to cut out the dead wood and streamline production.
  新型高效高精度切槽刀杆结构及应用新经理想精简机构以提高生产效率。
• 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。
• Remove dead or damaged wood on your avocado tree at any time to help stimulate growth and prevent further damage to your tree.
  随时剪除你的鳄梨树上的病死枝，以刺激增长并预防未来鳄梨树可能造成的危害。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。