inordinate

英 [ɪnˈɔːdɪnət]

美 [ɪnˈɔːrdɪnət]

adj.  过度的; 过分的; 超乎预料的

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牛津词典

adj.

• 过度的；过分的；超乎预料的
  far more than is usual or expected

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 极度的;非常的;过度的
  If you describe something asinordinate, you are emphasizing that it is unusually or excessively great in amount or degree.
  1. They spend an inordinate amount of time talking.
     他们花在说上的时间太多了。
  2. ...their inordinate number of pets.
     他们过多的宠物

英英释义

adj

• beyond normal limits
  1. excessive charges
  2. a book of inordinate length
  3. his dress stops just short of undue elegance
  4. unreasonable demands
  Synonym:excessiveundueunreasonable

双语例句

• We spend an inordinate amount of time browsing the Web every day.
  我们每天在网络浏览上花费海量的时间。
• She had an inordinate fondness for candy.
  她喜欢吃糖果到了无节制的程度。
• We are each taking a calculated risk that our investment will give us inordinate returns.
  我们都在作谨慎的冒险，希望我们的投资能够给我们带来非常高的回报。
• This sort of environment leads to inordinate stress and degradation of performance: it must be stopped.
  这类环境导致过度紧张和执行力下降：它必须停止。
• This would have showed us similar information, but at a session level, so we could have seen that our session had done an inordinate number of sequential scans and lock requests.
  这将为我们展示类似的信息，但是在会话级别，因此我们会看到会话做了过多的顺序扫描与锁定请求。
• Likewise, teams often expend inordinate amounts of time maintaining and fussing over their script-driven build systems.
  同样，团队经常花费过多的时间来维护并过分小心地对待他们的脚本驱动的构建系统。
• I have to say that I did have a job where there was an inordinate amount of paperwork.
  我能和一些非常不错的人一起工作非常荣幸。但我不得不说我过去需要做大量的文书工作。
• So perhaps parents shouldn't be too worried if their children are spending an inordinate amount of time playing video games.
  因此，也许父母不应该太担心，如果他们的子女花大量的时间玩视频游戏过多。
• Results ( 1) The array of cilia is inordinate, orientation is different and inverse;
  结果（1）纤毛排列紊乱、方向不一、倒状；
• Her inordinate mania for romance.
  她对恋爱故事的过分迷恋。