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

• So I wrote him a letter, said: Once, I had the pleasure to visit your farm and found that there are many vector species of chrysanthemum trees, some already dead, wood has become soft.
  于是我给他写了一封信，说：有一次，我有幸参观您的农场，发现那里长着许多矢菊树，有些已经死掉，木质已变得松软。
• 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。
• I was dead tired, as you may fancy; and when I got to sleep which was not till after a great deal of tossing, I slept like log of wood.
  我死累死累的，你可以想像得到，在经历了这样一番折腾后，我一倒下便睡得像根木头了。
• 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 management decided to economize by cutting the dead wood from the workforce, thus reducing the wages bill.
  资方决定节省开支，裁减劳动力中的冗员，这样可以减少工资支出。
• Remove ( dead wood, branches, etc) by cutting The land cracked and the springs dried up and the cattle listlessly nibbled dry twings.
  剪去（枯木、枯枝等）土地龟裂，泉水干枯，牛儿无精打采地啃着干树枝。
• 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。
• Study on Using Wood-rotting Fungi to Treat Stumps of Dead Wood Caused by PWN ( Bursaphelenchus Xylophilus); The Maine woodsman sits on a stump whose rings number centuries of growth.
  利用木腐菌处理松材线虫病病死树伐桩的研究缅茵州的伐木人坐在一段有数百年年轮的木桩上。
• 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。
• You have to cut away some of the dead wood.
  你得把枯枝砍掉一些。从树上砍下一条树枝。