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

• Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, B.mucronatus and other nematodes separated from dead pine wood were detected using specific primer pair.
  采用特异引物组合对枯死松树内分离的松材线虫、拟松材线虫及其他线虫进行检测。
• 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。
• 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。
• They are like clear-cutting a forest, not removing dead wood.
  这样做就好比夷平整座森林，而不是砍掉几棵枯树。
• Production must become more efficient. Some measures need to be taken to cut out the dead wood and streamline production
  必须提高生产效率.应采取措施裁汰冗员，以提高生产效率
• Making dead wood more bless'd than living lips.
  让死木比活嘴唇更有福缘。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• Two, while the CEOs might claim otherwise, often it's not the so-called dead wood who are chopped during layoffs.
  第二，在裁员的过程中，公司砍掉的，往往不是所谓的枯枝。