expendable
英 [ɪk'spendəb(ə)l; ek-]
美 [ɪk'spɛndəbl]
- adj. 可消费的；排出的；不重复使用的；可牺牲的
- n. 消耗品
英文词源
- expendable (adj.)
- 1805, from expend + -able.
双语例句
- 1. Once our services cease to be useful to them, we're expendable.
- 一旦我们的服务对他们不再有用，我们就可能被抛弃。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. During the recession, training budgets were seen as an expendable luxury.
- 在经济衰退期间，培训预算被认为是一项可以节省下来的奢侈费用。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. We need such expendable supplies as pencils, ink and paper.
- 我们需要象铅笔 、 墨水和纸张这样的消费品.
来自辞典例句
- 4. In these conservation - conscious times, areas of grassland are no longer expendable.
- 在人们意识到应当保护自然资源的这个时代, 草原已不容再受破坏了.
来自辞典例句
- 5. In the Great War soldiers were considered expendable.
- 在第一次世界大战中,人们认为士兵是尽可牺牲的.
来自辞典例句