| 词汇 | dead-loss |
| 释义 | dead loss noun[ S ] informaluk /ˌded ˈlɒs/ us /ˌded ˈlɑːs/ an activity or process that is not at all effective or successful: 无用功，白费力 Yesterday's meeting was a dead loss - nothing was decided.昨天的会白开了——什么都没有决定下来。 a person who is not successful or useful: 废物；无用之人 I was a dead loss at languages at school.我上学时对各种语言课程总是一筹莫展。 John was a dead loss - he just stood there and did nothing.约翰真没用——他干站在那里什么也不干。 Useless and futile adrift aimless aimlessly aimlessness airy-fairy fruitlessly fruitlessness futile futilely futility negation no goodidiom non-viable nugatory ornamental unrealistic unrealistically unseriousness until you are blue in the faceidiom unviability You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Failures Examples of dead lossdead loss Other developments, after costing a lot of money, have ended in deadloss. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As a propagandist, he is a deadloss. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Television is a deadloss to the exhibitors, but it is a considerable help to the producers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To agree to anything of that kind means to me a deadloss at once. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The old-fashioned idea of putting in a manager and bringing in third-rate touring companies is a deadloss. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That was a deadloss to the farmer of a life's work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, this short-lived experiment should not be written off as a deadloss. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At the present moment the money is a deadloss. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They think that something is in writing, and that they can go to the courts, but basically it is all a deadloss. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many ships are saved for the repair yards to-day which in earlier days would have been a deadloss to us. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think a period of no institutional advance is not to be regarded as a tragedy or a deadloss. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does he realise that to delay any longer means a further deadloss? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that they are a deadloss. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That was a deadloss to the community of £510,000. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Of that, according to an answer given a year ago, £489,000 had been repaid at that date and £295,000 had been written off as a deadloss. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of dead loss 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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