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

• Likewise, teams often expend inordinate amounts of time maintaining and fussing over their script-driven build systems.
  同样，团队经常花费过多的时间来维护并过分小心地对待他们的脚本驱动的构建系统。
• They spend an inordinate amount of time talking.
  他们花在说上的时间太多了。
• Individual incentives should reward long-term success, prevent short-termist excesses and punish inordinate risk-taking.
  个人激励应奖励长期成就，避免短视的过度行为，并对无节制的冒险予以惩罚。
• Frank kept my book for such an inordinate length of time that I shall never lend him anything again.
  弗兰克借我的书借了那么久，我再也不借给他任何东西了。
• They commonly run simulations and other CPU-intensive programs that would take an inordinate amount of time to run on regular hardware.
  高性能集群通常会运行一些模拟程序和其他对CPU非常敏感的程序，这些程序在普通的硬件上运行需要花费大量的时间。
• 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。
• Many of us spend an inordinate amount of time in the office, and as anthropologists, architects and psychologists often note the way we are physically organised shapes how we work and think in a profound way.
  我们许多人要在办公室度过超乎寻常的时间，并且，正如人类学家、建筑师和心理学家经常指出的，我们在物理上的组织方式深刻影响着我们的工作和思考方式。
• 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 are each taking a calculated risk that our investment will give us inordinate returns.
  我们都在作谨慎的冒险，希望我们的投资能够给我们带来非常高的回报。
• But I have been under inordinate pressure.
  我现在处在一团乱麻之中。