Superfluous

(a.) More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive; as, a superfluous price.

弗洛整理

• In disproof of which superfluous remark Sir Leicester has indignantly written on the slate, I am not. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• This second cousin was a Middlemarch mercer of polite manners and superfluous aspirates. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• At length I gathered resolution to address him, in a pause of the tempest of his passion: Your repentance, I said, is now superfluous. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• This young man has left prints upon the stair-carpet which made it quite superfluous for me to ask to see those which he had made in the room. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• It was eminently superfluous to him to be told that he was reaping the consequences. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Tell me, at least, the expenses of the republic, for no doubt you intend to retrench the superfluous? 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• After being placed for an instant between blotting paper, to remove superfluous moisture, it is laid with the drawing downwards on the stone, which is slightly warmed. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• It may be necessary to have dykes on portions of the seashore; they may be superfluous elsewhere. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• And in doing this they were compelled to discard the precious values of art, religion and social life of which this superfluous energy is the creator. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• There is always a great deal of superfluous energy aroused. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The cloth is dipped into a body of starch, or the same is applied by hand, and then the superfluous starch squeezed out as the clothes are passed through the rollers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• God knows I thought this advice superfluous for some of us. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Hence, all superfluous cash was devoted to experimentation. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I remember that I thought it, in form, more like a riding-habit with the superfluous skirt cut off, than anything else. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The pressure for likemindedness in action from this source is so great that it is quite superfluous to appeal to imitation. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• To feed all these superfluous mouths we shall need a part of our neighbour's land, and they will want a part of ours. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Comment is superfluous. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Which is something superfluous in him, for Nature has already screwed both pretty tight. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• As Mr. Yorke did not possess poetic imagination himself, he considered it a most superfluous quality in others. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Mrs Chivery considered the latter precaution superfluous, but said she would try. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Minute enactments are superfluous in good states, and are useless in bad ones. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• When profits are high, that sober virtue seems to be superfluous, and expensive luxury to suit better the affluence of his situation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Having secured me a place and a seat, he withdrew without asking a questionwithout obtruding a remark, without adding a superfluous word. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The mechanical processes designed to separate the ore from its enclosing rock or other superfluous earthy matter called _gangue_ became known as _ore dressing_ and _ore concentrating_. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Miss Micawber I found made snug for stormy weather, in the same manner; with nothing superfluous about her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I abandon to you, then, what is absolutely superfluous to me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• This was said with a careless, abstracted indifference, which showed that my solicitude was, at least in his opinion, wholly superfluous. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Our warning would have been superfluous; and now I am thankful we came too late to give it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Superfluous property is the creature of society. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The engraver or finisher then takes charge of it, preparing the engraving for the routing department, where the superfluous metal is removed. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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