- 1可消耗的；指人則是「可犧牲的」（語氣冷；口語有時說「砲灰」）
If something is expendable, people do not need it enough to keep it or save it. They can use it up, throw it away, or lose it, and the work still goes on. Gloves and batteries can be expendable: you use them and get more. Though actually, the colder and more famous use is about people. If a boss, an army, or a film treats someone as expendable, it means that person can be sacrificed — losing them is treated as acceptable. You will also hear it as a noun: the expendables are the people or things put in that throwaway role. On a supply list the word can sound calm. About a human being it sounds cruel, and that jump is the point.
組成From expend + -able: able to be expended, used up.
同家族的字
- expendthe verb this is built from: to use up
- expenditurethe amount expended
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
expendableadj/ɪkˈspɛndəbəl/
- 1
Able to be expended; not inexhaustible.
- Oil and other expendable resources are frequently the subject of military disputes.
- 2
Designed for a single use; not reusable.
- The anti-aircraft rocket is fired from an expendable launch platform.
- 3
Not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal.
- The research department was deemed expendable, and its funding was not renewed.
- 4
Regarded as not worth preserving or saving; able to be sacrificed.
- In the internecine rivalries of large corporations, whole departments may become expendable in the execution of one executive's power play.
- He was expendable, like commodities past their use.
expendablenoun/ɪkˈspɛndəbəl/
- 1
An expendable person or object; usually used in the plural.
- Private Johnson was afraid the Lieutenant considered him an expendable, since he was always picked as point man.
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