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

• 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。
• 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。
• But I have been under inordinate pressure.
  我现在处在一团乱麻之中。
• Inordinate desire is at the root of all evils.
  无节制的欲望是一切罪恶的根源。
• 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。
• One result has been inordinate reliance on monetary policy, often highly unconventional monetary policy, whose effects on the economy are at least as uncertain as those of fiscal stimulus.
  一个结果是形成对货币政策的过度依赖，而且通常是非传统货币政策，其对经济的影响至少和财政刺激一样不确定。
• The European Union's finance ministers spend an inordinate amount of time discussing budget deficits;
  欧盟财长们花费大量时间讨论预算赤字；
• This sort of environment leads to inordinate stress and degradation of performance: it must be stopped.
  这类环境导致过度紧张和执行力下降：它必须停止。
• 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。
• 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。