| 词汇 | dead-wood |
| 释义 | dead wood noun[ U ] uk /ˌded ˈwʊd/ us /ˌded ˈwʊd/ people or things that are no longer useful: 废人，冗员；废物 She cleared out the dead wood as soon as she took over the company.她接管公司后立即辞退了冗员。 Too much and unnecessary ado be up to your neck (in something)idiom bellyful binge carry/take coals to Newcastleidiom drown gush hyper immoderate immoderately inappeasable inessential infest plenty pleonasm pleonastic plethora proliferation unwarranted weigh someone/something down dead wood | American Dictionarydead wood noun[ U ] us/ˈded ˌwʊd/ people, esp. employees, who are no longer useful: When she took over the agency, she streamlined the operation by getting rid of a lot of dead wood. dead wood | Business Englishdead wood noun[ U ] (USusuallydeadwood)ukus people or things that are no longer useful or effective: We think that 76% of all retail money is invested in funds which are effectively dead wood. get rid of/clear out the dead woodIf the company is to improve its performance, it needs to take this opportunity to get rid of some of the deadwood. Examples of dead wooddead wood The canopy is very open causing exposed conditions within the forest, and deadwood above the forest floor is usually very dry. They found no difference in the amount of deadwood by decomposition class among life zones. To estimate the annual deadwood net accumulation, all quadrats and transects were resampled again 1 y later. Deadwood in the form of snags and dead-wood patches a ccounted for approximately 40% of all foraging observations. Decomposition state (solid, partially decomposed, fully decomposed) was noted for each piece of fallen deadwood. Deadwood is an important component of forest ecosystems. The amount of total deadwood was 3- to 14-fold greater in burned forests compared with unburned forests. The decomposition rates of deadwood can not be understood without information about the saprotrophic organisms involved. After three years, the two sole survivors were seedlings which had established on deadwood. The molluscan infauna of deadwood was also included, but no sieving for soil infauna was attempted. This may provide a basis for understanding the possible slower turnover rates of deadwood in wetter life zones. The turnover rate of deadwood was lowest in the moist forest life zone where climatic conditions seemed to be most favourable for decomposition. Also, lianas may entangle many pieces of deadwood in the canopy and delay their fall to the ground. These are mainly generalist parasitoids which use their very long ovipositors to attack hosts living deep in deadwood. The moisture content of the deadwood in the moist and especially the wet forest could be too high for many wood-rotting fungal species to survive. See all examples of dead wood 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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