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

• Many of us spend an inordinate amount of time in the office, and as anthropologists, architects and psychologists often note the way we are physically organised shapes how we work and think in a profound way.
  我们许多人要在办公室度过超乎寻常的时间，并且，正如人类学家、建筑师和心理学家经常指出的，我们在物理上的组织方式深刻影响着我们的工作和思考方式。
• 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。
• 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。
• Results ( 1) The array of cilia is inordinate, orientation is different and inverse;
  结果（1）纤毛排列紊乱、方向不一、倒状；
• It's a time when your ordinary, day-to-day life has an inordinate impact on who you will become.
  这个时期，日常的普通生活都会对你的未来道路影响巨大。
• This would have showed us similar information, but at a session level, so we could have seen that our session had done an inordinate number of sequential scans and lock requests.
  这将为我们展示类似的信息，但是在会话级别，因此我们会看到会话做了过多的顺序扫描与锁定请求。
• The European Union's finance ministers spend an inordinate amount of time discussing budget deficits;
  欧盟财长们花费大量时间讨论预算赤字；
• Individual incentives should reward long-term success, prevent short-termist excesses and punish inordinate risk-taking.
  个人激励应奖励长期成就，避免短视的过度行为，并对无节制的冒险予以惩罚。
• Overall, the GIs spent an inordinate amount of time checking on each other.
  总体上来说，美国大兵耗费了太多时间彼此检查、互相质疑。
• We are each taking a calculated risk that our investment will give us inordinate returns.
  我们都在作谨慎的冒险，希望我们的投资能够给我们带来非常高的回报。