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

• 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
• But much of it is dead wood.
  但官僚机构的多数是无用的冗员。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Making dead wood more bless'd than living lips.
  让死木比活嘴唇更有福缘。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• Low profits gave the company an excuse to clean out the dead wood.
  盈利低微给了公司裁减冗员的借口。