| 词汇 | needlessly |
| 释义 | needlessly adverb uk /ˈniːd.ləs.li/ us /ˈniːd.ləs.li/ in a way that is not necessary: 不必要地 She'd worried needlessly about whether there would be enough food.她为食物是不是够吃白白担心了一回。 Too much and unnecessary ado be up to your neck (in something)idiom bellyful binge carry/take coals to Newcastleidiom drown gush heavy-handed hyper immoderate immoderately inappeasable infest plenty pleonasm pleonastic plethora proliferation unwarranted weigh someone/something down Examples of needlesslyneedlessly The legislative branch must also enact federal tort reform to allow providers to stop spending millions on needlessly defensive and excessive care. This problem definition ensures that designers do not needlessly pursue a solution to something that is not, in fact, the true issue. To make too much, however, of this seeming commonality is, finally, not helpful and may, in fact, needlessly mystify efforts to understand sound installation. We may think that his way of life needlessly frustrates the expression of his nature, of who he is. It is quite a feat but it seems needlessly self-denying. The transformation may be significant if the value of y would be deallocated rather than needlessly held in a closure. Yet he believes that historians who perpetuate conventional periodization needlessly put fellow human beings at risk. The stipulation is unlikely to be enforceable, and, to the extent that it is enforced, will needlessly restrict the flexibility of land and labour markets. This has prompted concerns that some caesarean sections may be unnecessary, and may needlessly expose women to the risks of major surgery. The internals of the library are thus needlessly exposed to the user and the real reason for the error becomes harder to find. Nonetheless, government policy should attempt to do nothing that needlessly increases this uncertainty, or increases the information differential between firms. However, the consequence of this may be that patients suffer needlessly. For scientists, this also means that rigidly applied general standards that may not be appropriate in particular instances will not needlessly impede research. In particular, isn't it needlessly barbaric to insist that punishment be painful? Needlessly hospitalized debilitated patients are more likely to acquire and carry drug-resistant infections that are costly to treat and that endanger other inpatients. 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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