utility

英 [juːˈtɪləti]

美 [juːˈtɪləti]

n.  公用事业; 实用; 效用; 有用; 实用程序; 公用程序
adj.  多用途的; 多效用的; 多功能的

复数：utilities　

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牛津词典

noun

• 公用事业
  a service provided for the public, for example an electricity, water or gas supply
  1. the administration of public utilities
     公共事业的管理
• 实用；效用；有用
  the quality of being useful
• 实用程序；公用程序
  a piece of computer software that performs a particular task

adj.

• 多用途的；多效用的；多功能的
  that can be used for several different purposes
  1. an all-round utility player (= one who can play equally well in several different positions in a sport)
     全面型选手

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 功用;效用;实用
  Theutilityof something is its usefulness.
  1. Belief in the utility of higher education is shared by students nationwide...
     全国的学生都相信高等教育是有用的。
  2. He inwardly questioned the utility of his work.
     他内心质疑自己的工作是否有用。
• N-COUNT 公用事业
  Autilityis an important service such as water, electricity, or gas that is provided for everyone, and that everyone pays for.
  1. ...public utilities such as gas, electricity and phones.
     煤气、电和电话等公用事业

英英释义

noun

• the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility
  1. the cost of utilities never decreases
  2. all the utilities were lost after the hurricane
• a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal
  1. the price of the house included all utilities
• the quality of being of practical use
  Synonym:usefulness
• (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer
  1. a computer system provides utility programs to perform the tasks needed by most users
  Synonym:utility programservice program
• a company that performs a public service
  Synonym:public utilitypublic utility companypublic-service corporation
• (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice

双语例句

• This solution solves the problem of having multiple copies of the same Utility JAR in a single application.
  这个方案解决了在单一的应用软件中拥有同一个UtilityJAR的多种拷贝的问题。
• The DB2 UDB load utility very efficiently writes data from one or more input files to a database table.
  DB2UDBload工具非常高效地将一个或多个输入文件中的数据写到数据库表中。
• Belief in the utility of higher education is shared by students nationwide
  全国的学生都相信高等教育是有用的。
• The PRACTICE specification determines which utilities are to be monitored and which syntax rules to enforce for each utility.
  PRACTICE规范确定要监视哪些实用程序和对每个实用程序执行哪些语法规则。
• Akamai provides a flexible Content Control Utility that you can use to perform this task.
  Akamai提供一个灵活的ContentControl实用程序，可以使用它执行这个任务。
• They included a command-line interpreter and some small utility programs.
  还包括一个命令行解释器和一些小的实用程序。
• But this kernel can also support guest operating systems, loaded through the kvm utility.
  但是这个内核也可以支持通过kvm工具加载的客户操作系统。
• You only need basic knowledge of HACMP and AIX to use this utility.
  您只需拥有HACMP和AIX的基础知识就可以使用此实用工具。
• This ware is suitable for decorative purpose but unsuitable for utility.
  这种器皿中看不中用。
• You can invoke this utility from the Control Center, in batch jobs, or using the command-line processor.
  您可以从控制中心（ControlCenter）、批处理作业或通过使用命令行处理器来调用该实用程序。