柯林斯詞典expendable /?k?sp?nd?b?l/ 1. ADJ If you regard someone or something as expendable, you think it is acceptable to get rid of them, abandon them, or allow them to be destroyed when they are no longer needed. 可消耗的[正式] Once our services cease to be useful to them, we're expendable. 一旦我們的服務(wù)對他們沒了用,我們就是可消耗的了。 During the recession, training budgets were seen as an expendable luxury. 在衰退時期,培訓(xùn)預(yù)算被看成是消耗的奢侈品。 返回 expendable劍橋詞典If someone or something is expendable, people can do something or deal with a situation without them. 可有可無的;無關(guān)緊要的;不必要的 No one likes to think that they're expendable. 誰也不願意認(rèn)爲(wèi)自己無足輕重。 返回 expendable