gratuitous

英 [ɡrəˈtjuːɪtəs]

美 [ɡrəˈtuːɪtəs]

adj.  无正当理由(或目的)的; 无谓的

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牛津词典

adj.

• 无正当理由（或目的）的；无谓的
  done without any good reason or purpose and often having harmful effects
  1. gratuitous violence on television
     电视节目里无谓的暴力镜头

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 无理由的；不必要的；无缘无故的
  If you describe something asgratuitous, you mean that it is unnecessary, and often harmful or upsetting.
  1. There's too much crime and gratuitous violence on TV.
     电视里充斥着犯罪和无端的暴力。
  2. ...his insistence on offering gratuitous advice.
     他坚持要提供一些无谓的建议

英英释义

adj

• without cause
  1. a gratuitous insult
• unnecessary and unwarranted
  1. a strikers' tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life
  Synonym:needlessuncalled-for
• costing nothing
  1. complimentary tickets
  2. free admission
  Synonym:complimentarycostlessfreegratis(p)

双语例句

• His criticism is quite gratuitous.
  他的批评完全没有根据。
• Mr Biden is known for his affection towards Israel but took the announcement as a gratuitous insult.
  人们都知道拜登先生对以色列有好感，但他还是认为这一新的建房决定是对其无端的羞辱。
• The author falsely depends on gratuitous assumption that.
  作者错误地依靠无根据的假设。
• The people who have made important or outstanding contributions to the state or to the public, and the people who implement the inter-governmental agreements on gratuitous aids;
  对国家及社会等有重大或突出贡献的人员以及执行政府间无偿援助协议的人员。
• Liu boss, generous, because I never showed a trace of gratuitous waste of discontent.
  刘老板大度，从未因我的无端浪费表现出一丝的不满。
• Were it not for your gratuitous interference, the children would have quickly settled their dispute.
  要不是你多余的干涉，孩子们很快就会停止争论的。
• This example from Struts is a prime illustration of gratuitous copy-and-paste code, which is not only unnecessary but trivially easy to fix.
  来自Struts的示例解释了免费的复制和粘帖代码，这些代码不仅毫无必要，并且容易修复。
• Except for a few gratuitous successes, which I am prepared to admit, systematic cross-breeding has never produced good results.
  除了少数几个我准备承认的毫无道理的成功的例子，系统的杂交养育从未产生过好的结果。
• A lot of viewers complained that there was too much gratuitous sex and violence in the film.
  许多观众抱怨电影里充斥着过多不必要的性和暴力。
• At the end of this function, a gratuitous acquisition and release of the console semaphore is performed that emits the next log message to the console ( performed within release_console_sem).
  这个函数最后将获取和释放执行控制台信号，并将下一条日志消息发送到控制台（在releaseconsolesem中执行）。