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单词 dispensable
释义
dispensable
adjective
uk
/dɪˈspen.sə.bəl/us
/dɪˈspen.sə.bəl/
more than you need andthereforenotnecessary; that can be gotridof:
可有可无的，非必需的
Itseemedthesoldierswereregardedas dispensable -theirdeathsjust didn'tmatter.那些士兵似乎被认为是可有可无的——他们的死无关紧要。
Opposites
essential(NECESSARY)
indispensable
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Too much and unnecessary
  • avalanche
  • be up toyourneck (insomething)idiom
  • bellyful
  • binge
  • carry/take coals to Newcastleidiom
  • de trop
  • drown
  • gush
  • immoderate
  • immoderately
  • inessential
  • insatiable
  • overdose
  • pleonasm
  • pleonastic
  • plethora
  • proliferation
  • redundancy
  • the last thingyouwant, need, etc.idiom
  • weighsomeone/somethingdown
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(Definition ofdispensablefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdispensable

dispensable
He employs not simply an ends-justifying-means reasoning but, instead, a view that the end is self-justifying whereas the process of inquiry is itself somewhatdispensable.
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In some cases these scaffolding molecules and domains aredispensablewith the introduction of appropriate fusions.
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Many of the 277 notes are immediately germane to the text, although others aredispensabledistractions.
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Since risk is already shared predominantly among patients and providers, the payers have made themselves increasinglydispensable.
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Everything in this book is extremely worth reading but the book itself is, in my judgement, entirelydispensable.
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This is not to say that such norms are useless or whollydispensablefor those purposes.
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Though he would prefer to be happy, he thinks such matters overrated: a small, and ultimatelydispensable, part of the good life.
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I do not think this shows that middle knowledge isdispensable.
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It seems therefore that most of the brain structures involved in human speech control aredispensablefor monkey call production.
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How do we determine whether some functioning is important or trivial, urgent ordispensable?
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On the alternative interpretation, the analogous conclusions are (1) that the notion of 'athletic ability' isdispensableand (2) that the notion can be constructed out of consistent winning relations.
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I then show that this framework isdispensable: really all one needs to block the better-world argument is the assumption that creatures have libertarian free will.
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It is always "de trop" ordispensablein the strictest sense, since the contribution made by humorous behavior or discourse at work falls squarely in the area of interpersonal relationships.
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Details are boring and thereforedispensable.
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Instead of taking the one-to-one correspondence between preferences and choices as showing that talk of subjective preferences isdispensable, the correspondence between choice and preference legitimates talk of subjective states.
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