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

• Production must become more efficient. Some measures need to be taken to cut out the dead wood and streamline production
  必须提高生产效率.应采取措施裁汰冗员，以提高生产效率
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Taxonomic Studies on Fallen Dead Wood Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes from Hainan and Yunnan Provinces of China
  中国海南、云南两省凋落枯枝暗色丝孢真菌分类研究
• In this paper, burrow, dead knot, slipknot are the most three common wood defects for the study, conducted in-depth research on the wood surface defect pattern recognition method.
  本文主要以木材的死节、活节和虫眼三种常见缺陷为研究对象，对木材的缺陷图像分割和模式识别方法进行了深入的研究。