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unwanted

/uhn-won-tid, ‐wawn‐/US // ʌnˈwɒn tɪd, ‐ˈwɔn‐ //UK // (ʌnˈwɒntɪd) //

不需要的,不受欢迎的,不需要的东西,不需要

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not desired or needed; not wanted: My absence generated some unwanted attention.

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Examples

  • Although accuracy of editing has improved, there are still concerns that gene editors will make unwanted, “off-target” changes elsewhere in DNA that might cause harm.

  • Pre-pandemic, Palantir did generate unwanted attention for such contracts.

  • With new molecular biology techniques, researchers can fine-tune vaccines to have predetermined lifetimes, which could eliminate concerns over unwanted mutations or ongoing evolution of the vaccine organism.

  • You probably don’t have a sauna in your house — and public ones seem like a good place to pass unwanted germs.

  • If CRISPR creates the wrong mutation, this could give the horse an unwanted trait.

  • Girls raised in households with more equitable fathers show lower rates of unwanted sex.

  • Targeting pods can bulge out a bit, and leak out unwanted signals.

  • As she details in her book Straight From The Source, Osorio began getting unwanted sexual advances from Scott.

  • Of course, physical intimidation is not the only way to discourage unwanted reporting.

  • It promises to be a parsimonious solution to the age-old problem of preventing unwanted pregnancies.

  • They, the restless ones, the unwanted and forgotten, the survivors.

  • Helen looked down on Ellice as a person of no importance, who was entirely unwanted, a mere nuisance, someone for ever in the way.

  • The unwanted information is painted out with an opaque substance, and then a photographic print is prepared.

  • If the best had been denied, she had been spared the worst,—the lot of a superfluous, unwanted woman!

  • We lose whatever sense of well-being we may have had, and we begin to feel unwanted, depressed, and less alive.