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

• Cut the dead wood away from the trees.
  剪掉树上的枯枝。
• 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。
• 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。
• The results showed that not only the symptoms on cross sections of the dead elm wood but also the morphology of the fungi were different from those caused by Dutch elm disease.
  从榆木枯萎症状，病菌形态及接种后无死亡现象的结果表明，均与世界流行的荷兰榆病无相似之处。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He spent all day sawing up the dead wood.
  他花了一天工夫把枯木锯成板材。