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Superfluous Food Means Suː'Pɜːrfluəs Adj.多余的 Picnic 我们有足够的野餐食物,再多的食物将会是多余的 Needed

Front superfluous
Pron [suː'pɜːrfluəs]
Back 【superfluous】
adj.多余的
We have enough food for the picnic; any more food would be superfluous.
我们有足够的野餐食物,再多的食物将会是多余的。
Vocab
superfluousmore than is needed, desired, or required

When something is so unnecessary that it could easily be done away with, like a fifth wheel on a car or a fifth person on a double date, call it superfluous.

Superfluous (soo-PER-floo-uhs) means "more than required." Use it when pointing out something that could be removed without detracting from the quality of something: "For a climb over a glacier, the very thickest shoes are absolutely necessary; beyond these, all else seems superfluous to me," wrote the adventurer Charles Stoddard in 1899. The word comes from Latin and literally means "overflowing": super, "over" + fluere, "to flow." So you can think of a superfluous addition as flowing over the boundaries of what's needed.

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