| 正面 | 13387.redundant 英 [rɪ'dʌnd(ə)nt]美 [rɪ'dʌndənt] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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| 背面 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 释义: 1. perhaps a metathesis of film (n.) "gauzy covering" + -y / -sy.2. flim- (谐音“覆泥膜”----覆盖泥土的薄膜)。adj. 多余的,过剩的;被解雇的,失业的;冗长的,累赘的 例句: 1. Changes in technology may mean that once-valued skills are now redundant.技术上的革新可能意味着曾经被重视的技术现在已变得多余。 redundant 多余的,被裁员的来自拉丁语 redundare,流出,来自 red-,往后,-und,水,水流,词源同 undulate,abound.即流出 的,多余的,引申词义被裁员的。 redundantredundant: [17] Etymologically, something that is redundant ‘overflows’ because there is too much of it. The word comes from the present participle of Latin redundāre ‘flow back, overflow’ (source also of English redound [14]). This was a compound verb formed from the prefix re- ‘back, again’ and undāre ‘rise in waves, surge’, a derivative of unda ‘wave’ (source of English undulate).=> redound, surround, undulateredundant (adj.)1590s, from Latin redundantem (nominative redundans), present participle of redundare, literally "overflow, pour over; be over-full;" figuratively "be in excess," from re- "again" (see re-) + undare "rise in waves," from unda "a wave" (see water (n.1)). Of persons, in employment situations, from 1928, chiefly British. Related: Redundantly." |
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