inordinate

英 [ɪnˈɔːdɪnət]

美 [ɪnˈɔːrdɪnət]

adj.  过度的; 过分的; 超乎预料的

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Collins.1 / BNC.19084 / COCA.17393

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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Many times projects spend an inordinate amount of time exploring tool options.
  项目经常花费大量的时间在探索工具选择上面。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。