英语词汇“otiose”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

His own girl sat sprawled out gracelessly on an overstuffed sofa with an expression of otiose boredom. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It could be that, because postmodern novels permit themselves such extraordinary liberties with the very history and geography that they exploit, fact-checking is now otiose. Peter Carey? Doesn't know his leeches. Tom McCarthy? Bad on moths 2010-10-17T20:44:00Z

Her first routine, for instance, about the otiose instructions on the back of shampoo bottles, gets its laughs from the relentless sarcasm with which she explores the subject. Ellen DeGeneres' The Beginning 2012-06-28T13:59:22Z

It is well structured, mirroring the hefty book which accompanied the TV series, though the recaps of previous episodes become otiose on DVD. Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States – box set review 2013-07-11T14:00:01Z

Insisting that every branch also have a vault and a cash-handling teller would be otiose, Torstendahl told me, especially given the sharp decline in cash transactions in the past decade. Imagining a Cashless World 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

Ludicrously, it was binned in favour of a hammy and otiose version of the Beatles’ Across the Universe. 20 Bowie songs you don’t know - but should 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

This is not an otiose question but rather a serious one that goes to the very root of the ethics of photojournalism, its training and practice. Fact and Fiction in Modern Photography 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

A clumsy criticism, bereft of any fine appreciation of times and habits unlike the present, might I suppose attempt to remove the latter clause from that place as being “otiose.” The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z

There is nothing, apparently, studied about it, no ornament or involution, no otiose epithets, no subtle allusiveness. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z

A consistently mechanical view has to regard all intelligence as otiose, as an "epi-phenomenal by-product" or fifth wheel to the cart, in the absence of which the given results would no less have occurred. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z

Uranus may have been an ancient sky-god, like the Samoyed Num, deposed by Cronus, originally, perhaps, one of the deputy-gods, active where their chief is otiose, whom we find in barbaric theology. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z

Otherwise it would result that the words name and alone would be otiose. The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy

There is really no other way of accounting for him, for except on this supposition he is quite otiose and unnecessary to the Grettir-story: the saga-man has no use for him. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn

There are many cases, indeed, in which it is impossible to discriminate between assent, inference, and assertion, on account of the otiose, passive, inchoate character of the act in question. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent

If the knower, however defined, is set over against the world to be known, knowing consists in possessing a transcript, more or less accurate but otiose, of real things. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude

These particulars, of a kind seldom given in this book, are not otiose; for they have much to do with the singular personality of our English Rossetti himself. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)

There is little need to exhibit the otiose or irresponsible opinions of men or groups of men, which had no direct influence on events. British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854

Much of it is useful and curious; much merely otiose; and much can only be described as an attempt to impart that which cannot be imparted in words. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25)

A divine economy is traceable in God's dealings with men; there is nothing purposeless, nothing otiose in God's dispensation. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology

To substitute the otiose insight gained by manipulation of a formula for the slow coöperative work of a humanity guided by reflective intelligence is more than a technical blunder of speculative philosophers. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude

Fitzjames, in fact, agreed, though I fancy unconsciously, with Comte, who condemned such speculations as 'otiose.' The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice

The pressure of foreign powers interested in the exploitation of China and of impatient American economic interests may combine to put an end to the present rather otiose existence led by the Consortium. China, Japan and the U.S.A. Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference

No doubt there is, and has been, a good deal of otiose and even rather silly criticism of details in historical novels which do not satisfy the strict historian. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century

He is, however, in part an otiose deity and can hardly be said to rule over this otherworldly realm. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV

From otiose gods, careless of human affairs, the transition was natural to a belief in no gods. A Manual of Moral Philosophy

"As happy as a clam at high-water," a figurative expression for otiose comfort. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.

The principle "same cause, same effect," which philosophers imagine to be vital to science, is therefore utterly otiose. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

By the way, these remarks on the Slav literature of Dalmatia may be thought otiose, for the national aspirations would not have been less fervent if they had been expressed in Italian. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1

Such an otiose form may sometimes indicate a succession of divine quasi-dynasties, somewhat as in the Greek sequence of Ouranos, Kronos, Zeus. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV

The biblical doctrine of the Fall of Man, which the Hebrews would never have evolved for themselves, remained an otiose dogma in Jewish religion. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield

Many beliefs which we quite sincerely hold are what have been called 'otiose beliefs'; we do not by an effort of the will realize them sufficiently strongly for them to affect action. Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge

In this short essay Nash reaches a higher level of eloquence than he had yet achieved, and, in spite of its otiose redundancy, this enthusiastic eulogy of Sidney is pleasant reading. The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse

If they do this sufficiently, it is otiose and impertinent to entertain the notion of creating any new theatrical agency. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays

It would be otiose to collect any more tributes to his genius, as it appeared to all Frenchmen, cultivated or semi-cultivated, about the year 1880. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters

I returned the same answer as a certain D.A.A.G. used to provide for similar otiose questions: "Never!" Leaves from a Field Note-Book

It is a hypothesis which we shall do well to dismiss as otiose. Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge

The Battaile of Agincourt is a somewhat otiose expansion, with purple patches, of the Ballad; it is, nevertheless, Drayton's best lengthy piece on a historical theme. Minor Poems of Michael Drayton

No fatted calf was killed for them: in fact they all got fourteen days C.B. and three days pay forfeited; though, as Dr. Johnson observed, the sea renders the C.B. part rather otiose. Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years

And this talk about "University" poets seems somewhat otiose unless it can be shown that Cambridge and Oxford directly encourage poesy, or aim to do so. Adventures in Criticism

But, with the perfection of photographic processes and of the cinematograph, pictures of this sort are becoming otiose. Art

Mr. Bonar Law appended to the announcement a surely otiose explanation of the necessity of the increase. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 4th, 1920

He reports to the somewhat otiose primal Being about men’s conduct, and he sometimes superintends the Mysteries. The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological

But to judge from the otiose majesty of some publishers, one would imagine that they had written at least "Childe Harold." Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911

It is when people are immovable in otiose self-satisfaction, when the air is still and when lethargy creeps over the whole body of humanity, that the face of Dr. Davidson hardens. Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality

There is no superfluous ornament in his orations, nothing tawdry, nothing otiose. Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865

Whatever he might subsequently produce was an interesting, but to their criticism an otiose appendix to his prose achievement. Aspects of Literature

To compile these truths from this history will not be otiose. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow

He is an absolute master of the otiose word, the superfluous sentence. The Art of Letters

Probably the question whether a drama belongs primarily to this, that, or the other of the categories is as otiose as the discussion whether the hen or the egg came first. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"

The more it really concerns us, the more exacting grow our demands for evidence of its truth; an otiose assent is easy, but this has none of the potency of genuine conviction. Robert Browning

Having no information about the mysteries, of course, we know nothing of other moral influences which are, or may be exercised by these great, powerful, and not wholly otiose beings. The Making of Religion

He told me he had only just got it, and he drifted away into otiose explanations of this fact. A. V. Laider

To insist in the financial affairs of Clare may seem blatant, or otiose: actually, the treatment which he underwent was a leading influence in his career. Poems Chiefly from Manuscript

He sits in an attitude not easy to describe, but familiar to all who have resided in the otiose East. Behind the Bungalow

It was very cordial, and it appealed directly, only the style was otiose, but in matters of the first importance style is a hindrance. On Nothing and Kindred Subjects

The hall was constructed in the manner of a Roman atrium, and from the oblong pool of turgid water in the centre a troop of fat and otiose rats fled weakly squealing at my approach. Prince Zaleski

He has been transplanted to the Parish Church, and he will stir up a few of the respectable otiose souls there if he has an opportunity. Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston

But the process of idealising him went on: still incomplete in Malory's compilation, where he is often rather otiose and far from royal. Alfred Tennyson

There is usually a supreme Maker who is, in some cases, moral, in others otiose. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1

Nay, its very shadow seems so richly heavy as to be the shadow of a fane erected by men endowed with a plethora of this world's goods to a god otiose in his grandeur. Through Russia

Now that conception is considerably above the obsolescent belief in an otiose god which is usually found among barbaric races of the type from which the Australians are said to have degenerated. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1

单词	otiose
例句	otiose His own girl sat sprawled out gracelessly on an overstuffed sofa with an expression of otiose boredom. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It could be that, because postmodern novels permit themselves such extraordinary liberties with the very history and geography that they exploit, fact-checking is now otiose. Peter Carey? Doesn't know his leeches. Tom McCarthy? Bad on moths 2010-10-17T20:44:00Z Her first routine, for instance, about the otiose instructions on the back of shampoo bottles, gets its laughs from the relentless sarcasm with which she explores the subject. Ellen DeGeneres' The Beginning 2012-06-28T13:59:22Z It is well structured, mirroring the hefty book which accompanied the TV series, though the recaps of previous episodes become otiose on DVD. Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States – box set review 2013-07-11T14:00:01Z Insisting that every branch also have a vault and a cash-handling teller would be otiose, Torstendahl told me, especially given the sharp decline in cash transactions in the past decade. Imagining a Cashless World 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Ludicrously, it was binned in favour of a hammy and otiose version of the Beatles’ Across the Universe. 20 Bowie songs you don’t know - but should 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z This is not an otiose question but rather a serious one that goes to the very root of the ethics of photojournalism, its training and practice. Fact and Fiction in Modern Photography 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z A clumsy criticism, bereft of any fine appreciation of times and habits unlike the present, might I suppose attempt to remove the latter clause from that place as being “otiose.” The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z There is nothing, apparently, studied about it, no ornament or involution, no otiose epithets, no subtle allusiveness. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z A consistently mechanical view has to regard all intelligence as otiose, as an "epi-phenomenal by-product" or fifth wheel to the cart, in the absence of which the given results would no less have occurred. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z Uranus may have been an ancient sky-god, like the Samoyed Num, deposed by Cronus, originally, perhaps, one of the deputy-gods, active where their chief is otiose, whom we find in barbaric theology. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Otherwise it would result that the words name and alone would be otiose. The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy There is really no other way of accounting for him, for except on this supposition he is quite otiose and unnecessary to the Grettir-story: the saga-man has no use for him. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn There are many cases, indeed, in which it is impossible to discriminate between assent, inference, and assertion, on account of the otiose, passive, inchoate character of the act in question. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent If the knower, however defined, is set over against the world to be known, knowing consists in possessing a transcript, more or less accurate but otiose, of real things. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude These particulars, of a kind seldom given in this book, are not otiose; for they have much to do with the singular personality of our English Rossetti himself. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) There is little need to exhibit the otiose or irresponsible opinions of men or groups of men, which had no direct influence on events. British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 Much of it is useful and curious; much merely otiose; and much can only be described as an attempt to impart that which cannot be imparted in words. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) A divine economy is traceable in God's dealings with men; there is nothing purposeless, nothing otiose in God's dispensation. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology To substitute the otiose insight gained by manipulation of a formula for the slow coöperative work of a humanity guided by reflective intelligence is more than a technical blunder of speculative philosophers. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Fitzjames, in fact, agreed, though I fancy unconsciously, with Comte, who condemned such speculations as 'otiose.' The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice The pressure of foreign powers interested in the exploitation of China and of impatient American economic interests may combine to put an end to the present rather otiose existence led by the Consortium. China, Japan and the U.S.A. Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference No doubt there is, and has been, a good deal of otiose and even rather silly criticism of details in historical novels which do not satisfy the strict historian. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century He is, however, in part an otiose deity and can hardly be said to rule over this otherworldly realm. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV From otiose gods, careless of human affairs, the transition was natural to a belief in no gods. A Manual of Moral Philosophy "As happy as a clam at high-water," a figurative expression for otiose comfort. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The principle "same cause, same effect," which philosophers imagine to be vital to science, is therefore utterly otiose. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays By the way, these remarks on the Slav literature of Dalmatia may be thought otiose, for the national aspirations would not have been less fervent if they had been expressed in Italian. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Such an otiose form may sometimes indicate a succession of divine quasi-dynasties, somewhat as in the Greek sequence of Ouranos, Kronos, Zeus. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV The biblical doctrine of the Fall of Man, which the Hebrews would never have evolved for themselves, remained an otiose dogma in Jewish religion. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Many beliefs which we quite sincerely hold are what have been called 'otiose beliefs'; we do not by an effort of the will realize them sufficiently strongly for them to affect action. Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge In this short essay Nash reaches a higher level of eloquence than he had yet achieved, and, in spite of its otiose redundancy, this enthusiastic eulogy of Sidney is pleasant reading. The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse If they do this sufficiently, it is otiose and impertinent to entertain the notion of creating any new theatrical agency. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays It would be otiose to collect any more tributes to his genius, as it appeared to all Frenchmen, cultivated or semi-cultivated, about the year 1880. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters I returned the same answer as a certain D.A.A.G. used to provide for similar otiose questions: "Never!" Leaves from a Field Note-Book It is a hypothesis which we shall do well to dismiss as otiose. Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge The Battaile of Agincourt is a somewhat otiose expansion, with purple patches, of the Ballad; it is, nevertheless, Drayton's best lengthy piece on a historical theme. Minor Poems of Michael Drayton No fatted calf was killed for them: in fact they all got fourteen days C.B. and three days pay forfeited; though, as Dr. Johnson observed, the sea renders the C.B. part rather otiose. Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years And this talk about "University" poets seems somewhat otiose unless it can be shown that Cambridge and Oxford directly encourage poesy, or aim to do so. Adventures in Criticism But, with the perfection of photographic processes and of the cinematograph, pictures of this sort are becoming otiose. Art Mr. Bonar Law appended to the announcement a surely otiose explanation of the necessity of the increase. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 4th, 1920 He reports to the somewhat otiose primal Being about men’s conduct, and he sometimes superintends the Mysteries. The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological But to judge from the otiose majesty of some publishers, one would imagine that they had written at least "Childe Harold." Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 It is when people are immovable in otiose self-satisfaction, when the air is still and when lethargy creeps over the whole body of humanity, that the face of Dr. Davidson hardens. Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality There is no superfluous ornament in his orations, nothing tawdry, nothing otiose. Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 Whatever he might subsequently produce was an interesting, but to their criticism an otiose appendix to his prose achievement. Aspects of Literature To compile these truths from this history will not be otiose. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow He is an absolute master of the otiose word, the superfluous sentence. The Art of Letters Probably the question whether a drama belongs primarily to this, that, or the other of the categories is as otiose as the discussion whether the hen or the egg came first. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" The more it really concerns us, the more exacting grow our demands for evidence of its truth; an otiose assent is easy, but this has none of the potency of genuine conviction. Robert Browning Having no information about the mysteries, of course, we know nothing of other moral influences which are, or may be exercised by these great, powerful, and not wholly otiose beings. The Making of Religion He told me he had only just got it, and he drifted away into otiose explanations of this fact. A. V. Laider To insist in the financial affairs of Clare may seem blatant, or otiose: actually, the treatment which he underwent was a leading influence in his career. Poems Chiefly from Manuscript He sits in an attitude not easy to describe, but familiar to all who have resided in the otiose East. Behind the Bungalow It was very cordial, and it appealed directly, only the style was otiose, but in matters of the first importance style is a hindrance. On Nothing and Kindred Subjects The hall was constructed in the manner of a Roman atrium, and from the oblong pool of turgid water in the centre a troop of fat and otiose rats fled weakly squealing at my approach. Prince Zaleski He has been transplanted to the Parish Church, and he will stir up a few of the respectable otiose souls there if he has an opportunity. Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston But the process of idealising him went on: still incomplete in Malory's compilation, where he is often rather otiose and far from royal. Alfred Tennyson There is usually a supreme Maker who is, in some cases, moral, in others otiose. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 Nay, its very shadow seems so richly heavy as to be the shadow of a fane erected by men endowed with a plethora of this world's goods to a god otiose in his grandeur. Through Russia Now that conception is considerably above the obsolescent belief in an otiose god which is usually found among barbaric races of the type from which the Australians are said to have degenerated. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1
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