gratuitous
发音
英 [ɡrəˈtjuːɪtəs]
美 [ɡrəˈtuːɪtəs]
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- adj.
- 免费的，无偿的
- 无必要的
- 无故的，无理由的
单词词源
gratuitous 无缘无故的，无谓的
来自词根grat, 感谢，词源同grace, gratitude. 原指表达感谢，报答，免费给予。后词义贬义化，指无缘无故的，莫名其妙的。比较汉语无功不受禄。
双语例句
- 1. But civility has been sacrificed to the gratuitous insult .
- 然而礼貌却沦为无端侮辱的牺牲品。
- 2. It is difficult to get the attention of most gamers under the age of 25 because our games offer no first-person perspective or gratuitous violence .
- 因为我们的游戏不提供第一人称视角和无端暴力所以很难吸引25岁以下的年轻玩家。
- 3. And a teacher should not lob gratuitous barbs at her students , which contradicts her own professional duty : to teach the skills and habits of democracy .
- 教师不应该无端地对自己的学生冷嘲热讽，这与她本身的职责相矛盾：传授技能和民主习惯。
- 4. " We demand the us side abandon its cold war thinking and stop its gratuitous criticism of china , " said liu jianchao , a chinese foreign ministry spokesman .
- 中国外交部发言人刘建超表示：“我们要求美方摒弃冷战思维，停止对中方的无端指责。”
- 5. This kind of gratuitous and overstated demonisation widely seen in the business community as a resort to economic populism on the part of mr obama to shore up the growing weakness in his political standing is exactly the wrong approach .
- 这种对商界无端而夸大的妖魔化完全是错误的做法商界普遍认为，这是奥巴马为解决政治地位日益下降而求助于经济民粹主义。