dead wood

英 [ˌded ˈwʊd]

美 [ˌded ˈwʊd]

n.  冗员; 废物

牛津词典

noun

• 冗员；废物
  people or things that have become useless or unnecessary in an organization

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 不再有用的人(或事物);累赘;冗余
  People or things that have been used for a very long time and that are no longer considered to be useful can be referred to asdead wood.
  1. ...the idea that historical linguistics is so much dead wood.
     认为历史语言学完全冗赘无用的观点

双语例句

• Low profits gave the company an excuse to clean out the dead wood.
  盈利低微给了公司裁减冗员的借口。
• The new manager wants to cut out the dead wood and streamline production.
  新经理想精简机构以提高生产效率。
• Making dead wood more bless'd than living lips.
  让死木比活嘴唇更有福缘。
• Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, B.mucronatus and other nematodes separated from dead pine wood were detected using specific primer pair.
  采用特异引物组合对枯死松树内分离的松材线虫、拟松材线虫及其他线虫进行检测。
• Opportunity was taken to get rid of a great deal of inefficient material in the lower ranks, but in the higher ranks much dead wood was left untouched.
  下面已利用时机解除了大批无用的人，而上面许多无用的人却碰都未碰过。
• Taxonomic Studies on Fallen Dead Wood Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes from Hainan and Yunnan Provinces of China
  中国海南、云南两省凋落枯枝暗色丝孢真菌分类研究
• Now, a log of dead wood drawn through a forest of legs;
  有时成了一块死木头从森林般的腿丛里拖出。
• Two, while the CEOs might claim otherwise, often it's not the so-called dead wood who are chopped during layoffs.
  第二，在裁员的过程中，公司砍掉的，往往不是所谓的枯枝。
• Remove dead or damaged wood on your avocado tree at any time to help stimulate growth and prevent further damage to your tree.
  随时剪除你的鳄梨树上的病死枝，以刺激增长并预防未来鳄梨树可能造成的危害。
• I was dead tired, as you may fancy; and when I got to sleep which was not till after a great deal of tossing, I slept like log of wood.
  我死累死累的，你可以想像得到，在经历了这样一番折腾后，我一倒下便睡得像根木头了。