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

• The new manager wants to cut out the dead wood and streamline production.
  新经理想精简机构以提高生产效率。
• Studies on the technology of processing charcoal for the treatment of dead pine wood
  加工活性炭处理松材线虫病死木技术的研究
• In_stream wood is defined as dead wood (>10 cm diameter and>1 m length) in the stream channel.
  溪流倒木是指在河流中长度大于1m、直径大于10cm的死木。
• In stark contrast to developed economies, where the printing of words on dead wood is a sunset industry and print journalists are a dying breed, the Chinese newspaper industry is in rude health.
  在发达经济体，平面媒体已是夕阳产业，报刊记者成为一个没落的职业；但与之形成鲜明对比的是，中国的报业却极富活力。
• 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。
• Cut the dead wood away from the trees.
  剪掉树上的枯枝。
• Now, a log of dead wood drawn through a forest of legs;
  有时成了一块死木头从森林般的腿丛里拖出。
• 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。
• Opportunity was taken to get rid of a great deal of inefficient material in the lower ranks, but in the higher ranks much dead wood was left untouched.
  下面已利用时机解除了大批无用的人，而上面许多无用的人却碰都未碰过。
• He spent all day sawing up the dead wood.
  他花了一天工夫把枯木锯成板材。