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needless

/need-lis/US // ˈnid lɪs //UK // (ˈniːdlɪs) //

不需要,无需,不需,不用

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : unnecessary; not needed or wanted: a needless waste of food.

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Examples

  • That process took days, involved fax machines, and, needless to say, offered no scratch-and-win prizes.

  • The steps were needed to avoid risking “needless suffering and death,” he said.

  • Decoupling also implies needless fear of head-to-head competition, which we simply have to face and in which we continue to enjoy significant advantage.

  • It just seems to be a silly and needless risk given what has happened in the last 48 hours with the president.

  • As a health care consumer in America, you are far more likely to be steered toward needless tests and procedures than away from them.

  • His Oxford shirts and matching boxers are, needless to say, woven.

  • The airline industry objects that sometimes these deployable recorders can pop out without cause, spreading needless alarm.

  • Needless to say, Juxiao was thrilled to see them and gave each of them a lot of love and affection.

  • Needless to say, this does not enamor her to the powers that be in Cameroon.

  • Needless to say, Howie disagrees with that characterization.

  • Because if that was to atone for man's sin, it was needless, as God could have forgiven man without Himself suffering.

  • Needless to say, the Worcestershire baronet had returned to his ancestral acres a sadder but a wiser man.

  • In writing K. I try to convey the truth in terms which will neither give him needless anxiety or undue confidence.

  • Mr. Pontellier had a vague suspicion of it which he thought it needless to mention at that late day.

  • The needless insertions of little words in many of the 15th-century MSS.