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

• There's too much gratuitous violence in the film.
  电影中有太多无端的暴力。
• This paper puts forward a new edge-directed enhancing based anisotropic diffusion model. I did not want to be singled out for gratuitous punishment.
  本文提出了一个新的边缘定向增强扩散模型.我不愿意叫她提溜出来遭受这无缘无故的惩罚。
• To confuse intelligence and dislocate sentiment by gratuitous fictions is a short-sighted way ofpursuing happiness.
  以无理的幻想混淆智力，弄乱正常的情感是一种短视的追求幸福的方法。
• 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。
• 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）。
• If gratuitous transfer of the State-owned equity of a limited liability company is involved, the relevant information about the resolution of the shareholders'meeting shall be submitted.
  涉及有限责任公司国有股权无偿划转的，相关股东会决议情况；
• This film director has always had a predilection for gratuitous violence.
  这位电影导演一直偏好天生的暴力。
• It's not a gratuitous failure and makes enough sense to see to the end.
  没有无缘无故的失败，我们可以看到它的结局。
• According to our daily experiences of using the internet, we can also confirm that the visitation of many websites from here in China has been subject to gratuitous prohibition.
  根据我们日常的上网经验，我们也确认很多网站的访问在国内受到了无端禁止。
• 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。