inordinate

英 [ɪnˈɔːdɪnət]

美 [ɪnˈɔːrdɪnət]

adj.  过度的; 过分的; 超乎预料的

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牛津词典

adj.

• 过度的；过分的；超乎预料的
  far more than is usual or expected

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 极度的;非常的;过度的
  If you describe something asinordinate, you are emphasizing that it is unusually or excessively great in amount or degree.
  1. They spend an inordinate amount of time talking.
     他们花在说上的时间太多了。
  2. ...their inordinate number of pets.
     他们过多的宠物

英英释义

adj

• beyond normal limits
  1. excessive charges
  2. a book of inordinate length
  3. his dress stops just short of undue elegance
  4. unreasonable demands
  Synonym:excessiveundueunreasonable

双语例句

• This sort of environment leads to inordinate stress and degradation of performance: it must be stopped.
  这类环境导致过度紧张和执行力下降：它必须停止。
• Many times projects spend an inordinate amount of time exploring tool options.
  项目经常花费大量的时间在探索工具选择上面。
• So perhaps parents shouldn't be too worried if their children are spending an inordinate amount of time playing video games.
  因此，也许父母不应该太担心，如果他们的子女花大量的时间玩视频游戏过多。
• She had an inordinate fondness for candy.
  她喜欢吃糖果到了无节制的程度。
• These same ladies, so inordinate of attention, will report me.
  就是这群女人，虽然现在尽心尽意，将来会密告我。
• You might want some form of scripted control over your desktop that lets you program in functionality without spending an inordinate amount of time learning how to do it.
  您可能需要以编写脚本的方式对桌面进行控制，以便利用相应的功能编写程序，而无需花费大量的时间来学习如何完成该项任务。
• Excessive success induces inordinate self-confidence, which inevitably leads them to make disastrous mistakes and to failure.
  过度的成功会导致自信心过度膨胀，继而不可避免地让他们铸成大错，一败涂地。
• We spend an inordinate amount of time browsing the Web every day.
  我们每天在网络浏览上花费海量的时间。
• They commonly run simulations and other CPU-intensive programs that would take an inordinate amount of time to run on regular hardware.
  高性能集群通常会运行一些模拟程序和其他对CPU非常敏感的程序，这些程序在普通的硬件上运行需要花费大量的时间。
• Likewise, teams often expend inordinate amounts of time maintaining and fussing over their script-driven build systems.
  同样，团队经常花费过多的时间来维护并过分小心地对待他们的脚本驱动的构建系统。