extraneous.
外来的,外在的,外来的东西,外来人员
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adj.adjective · 形容词
- 1.
- ›introduced or coming from without; not belonging or proper to a thing; external; foreign: extraneous substances in our water.
- ›not pertinent; irrelevant: an extraneous remark; extraneous decoration.
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The Senate can’t consider “extraneous” provisions requiring any proposals to alter federal spending or taxes in ways that are more than incidental to other policy aims, among other tests.
In addition, this pick comes with side hooks and a slatted shelf, which will let extraneous bits of soil just fall away to the ground, minimal cleanup required.
They don’t want to go participate in any extraneous activities, and he was totally fine going to work.
Running the 62-second recording through commercially available software, he lifted out the extraneous to isolate the specific, especially voices.
Effective science communication always involves pruning out extraneous details, and that pruning process is inherently subjective.
The whole stack was re-evaluated—a “one-time decision,” said a memo from the advisory council, due to “extraneous circumstances.”
It is clean, precise, and devastating—nothing extraneous, nothing false—and it comes as close as any fiction I know to perfection.
You know where you find a clear, neat story with no extraneous details?
He realized, as well, that there is a great deal of redundant information—extraneous bits—in human communication.