inordinate

英 [ɪnˈɔːdɪnət]

美 [ɪnˈɔːrdɪnət]

adj.  过度的; 过分的; 超乎预料的

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牛津词典

adj.

• 过度的；过分的；超乎预料的
  far more than is usual or expected

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 极度的;非常的;过度的
  If you describe something asinordinate, you are emphasizing that it is unusually or excessively great in amount or degree.
  1. They spend an inordinate amount of time talking.
     他们花在说上的时间太多了。
  2. ...their inordinate number of pets.
     他们过多的宠物

英英释义

adj

• beyond normal limits
  1. excessive charges
  2. a book of inordinate length
  3. his dress stops just short of undue elegance
  4. unreasonable demands
  Synonym:excessiveundueunreasonable

双语例句

• I have to say that I did have a job where there was an inordinate amount of paperwork.
  我能和一些非常不错的人一起工作非常荣幸。但我不得不说我过去需要做大量的文书工作。
• This would have showed us similar information, but at a session level, so we could have seen that our session had done an inordinate number of sequential scans and lock requests.
  这将为我们展示类似的信息，但是在会话级别，因此我们会看到会话做了过多的顺序扫描与锁定请求。
• So perhaps parents shouldn't be too worried if their children are spending an inordinate amount of time playing video games.
  因此，也许父母不应该太担心，如果他们的子女花大量的时间玩视频游戏过多。
• Even if the recovery proves mediocre, these cash levels look inordinate, says Mr Normand.
  即便经济复苏证实力度温和，这些现金水平看来也非同寻常，诺曼德先生说。
• You might want some form of scripted control over your desktop that lets you program in functionality without spending an inordinate amount of time learning how to do it.
  您可能需要以编写脚本的方式对桌面进行控制，以便利用相应的功能编写程序，而无需花费大量的时间来学习如何完成该项任务。
• Many of us end up spending inordinate amounts of time answering email.
  我们很多人每天花大量时间回复邮件。
• Excessive success induces inordinate self-confidence, which inevitably leads them to make disastrous mistakes and to failure.
  过度的成功会导致自信心过度膨胀，继而不可避免地让他们铸成大错，一败涂地。
• Sometimes the abstraction itself may be so large that the theorem prover may take an inordinate amount of time and resources to complete the proof.
  有时抽象本身可能是很大的工作量，以致定理证明程序可能花费过多时间和资源来完成证明。
• We spend an inordinate amount of time browsing the Web every day.
  我们每天在网络浏览上花费海量的时间。
• These same ladies, so inordinate of attention, will report me.
  就是这群女人，虽然现在尽心尽意，将来会密告我。