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 projects I encounter spend an inordinate amount of time researching, investigating, and pondering architectural decisions.
  我遇到过的许多项目花费大量杂乱的时间在研究、调查、考虑体系结构的确定上。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• Through the years, our school systems have come to rely heavily on children IQ and "standardized" testing, which puts an inordinate amount of focus on verbal-linguistic and math-logical mentality.
  多年来我们教学系统的发展严重依赖于孩子们的智商以及“标准化”测试，这样的内容过分注重于语言和数学逻辑的能力。
• 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。
• Overall, the GIs spent an inordinate amount of time checking on each other.
  总体上来说，美国大兵耗费了太多时间彼此检查、互相质疑。