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
- 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。 - Opportunity was taken to get rid of a great deal of inefficient material in the lower ranks, but in the higher ranks much dead wood was left untouched.
下面已利用时机解除了大批无用的人，而上面许多无用的人却碰都未碰过。 - He spent all day sawing up the dead wood.
他花了一天工夫把枯木锯成板材。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 new manager wants to cut out the dead wood and streamline production.
新经理想精简机构以提高生产效率。 - 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。 - 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。 - Now, a log of dead wood drawn through a forest of legs;
有时成了一块死木头从森林般的腿丛里拖出。