| 词汇 | inoperative |
| 释义 | inoperative adjective formaluk /ɪˈnɒp.ər.ə.tɪv/ us /ˌɪnˈɑː.pɚ.ə.t̬ɪv/ (of a law, rule, etc.) not having effect or power, or (of a machine, system, etc.) not working or not able to work as usual: （法律、规章等）无效力的；（机器、系统等）不工作的，不能正常运转的 The old regulations became inoperative when the new ones were issued.新规则公布后，旧规则随即失效。 There were guidelines about the procedure to follow if any of the voting machines became inoperative.指南规定了在投票机不能工作时应该遵守的程序。 Opposites functional operativeformal running(happening regularly) working Machines - not functioning act up balky blooey break down broken brokenness brownout downtime fail flat malfunction outage power (something) down seize seize up short circuit shot shudder shut whack inoperative | Business Englishinoperative adjective formaluk /ɪˈnɒpərətɪv/us LAW if a law or rule is inoperative, it does not have any effect and cannot be used: Legislation to repeal inoperative provisions in the tax law was approved. if a machine, system, etc. is inoperative, it does not work as it should and cannot be used: make/render sth inoperativeThe virus infects your PC and renders the whole operating system inoperative. Examples of inoperativeinoperative So we can agree that many of the ideas, in fact all the ideas of liberal education are totally inoperative in local situations. As is the case at the local and provincial levels, the national party bureaucracy is largely inoperative. When she espies the two bodies on the road and applies her brakes, she discovers that they are suddenly inoperative. But unlike any forces known in gravitational attraction, they had to be conceived as selective, limiting, and inoperative beyond a fixed (stoichiometric) stage. In fact, who can be heard asserting that market forces were inefcient or inoperative anywhere? If the experimenter then learns that the thermometer was inoperative at temperatures of 105 or greater but still accurate below 105, should this change the inferences that are made? However, the scheme was really inoperative, even in 1985, because the old unified procurement price was so low that the market price could hardly drop below it. This structure is indeed largely inoperative. The present law governing the militia has been on the statute books for one hundred and ten years and has long since been inoperative and obsolete. The vehicle, among other things, had no lights, faulty brakes, an inoperative handbrake, a faulty exhaust and bald tyres. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are clumsy, tedious, costly, and inoperative, and they have been so for nearly twenty years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is unnecessary to cost the effect of these cumbersome provisions, as they will be repealed at the first opportunity and will meanwhile remain inoperative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The tenth initiative relates to the tightening up of hygienic handling of eggs, and is inoperative while we await new statutory action. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The two walk-through metal detection scanners referred to have been inoperative for three years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why did he say then that they were inoperative and, indeed, unnecessary? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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