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extraneous

/ik-strey-nee-uhs/US // ɪkˈstreɪ ni əs //UK // (ɪkˈstreɪnɪəs) //

外来的,外在的,外来的东西,外来人员

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : introduced or coming from without; not belonging or proper to a thing; external; foreign: extraneous substances in our water.
    • : not pertinent; irrelevant: an extraneous remark; extraneous decoration.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.unneeded; irrevelant

Examples

  • The Senate can’t consider “extraneous” provisions requiring any proposals to alter federal spending or taxes in ways that are more than incidental to other policy aims, among other tests.

  • In addition, this pick comes with side hooks and a slatted shelf, which will let extraneous bits of soil just fall away to the ground, minimal cleanup required.

  • They don’t want to go participate in any extraneous activities, and he was totally fine going to work.

  • Running the 62-second recording through commercially available software, he lifted out the extraneous to isolate the specific, especially voices.

  • Effective science communication always involves pruning out extraneous details, and that pruning process is inherently subjective.

  • The whole stack was re-evaluated—a “one-time decision,” said a memo from the advisory council, due to “extraneous circumstances.”

  • It is clean, precise, and devastating—nothing extraneous, nothing false—and it comes as close as any fiction I know to perfection.

  • You know where you find a clear, neat story with no extraneous details?

  • He realized, as well, that there is a great deal of redundant information—extraneous bits—in human communication.

  • Her writing is marked by an utter lack of the extraneous, and bristles with a sense of the uncanny.

  • It was tightly clasped, and its boards were warped by having for years been obliged to embrace a number of extraneous sheets.

  • There were practically no burgesses extraneous to the Merchant Gild, though there were often Gildsmen who were not burgesses.

  • We saw, also, how there grew up a large class extraneous to the privileged Merchant Gild.

  • You defeated your end if you insisted on conditions, if you allowed anything extraneous to count as much as that.

  • He lives on extraneous resources, the wages of labour, realised means, or the aid of his family.