nugatory

英语

词源

借自拉丁語 nūgātōrius。

发音

音頻 (美國)： (檔案)
國際音標^(幫助): /ˈn(j)uːɡətɔɹi/

形容词

nugatory (比較級 more nugatory，最高級 most nugatory)

微不足道的，琐碎的
- Template:RQ:Carlyle Friedrich
- 1872, Benjamin Disraeli, Suez Canal Speech:
  I might refer to the general conviction and the common sense of society that such an investment cannot be treated as absolutely idle and nugatory.
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无效的，无用的，无意义的
- 1792, George Washington, Fourth State of the Union Address:
  I can not dismiss the subject of Indian affairs without again recommending to your consideration the expediency of more adequate provision for giving energy to the laws throughout our interior frontier and for restraining the commission of outrages upon the Indians, without which all pacific plans must prove nugatory.
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- 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], 章號 XVI, 出自 Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], 第 I 卷, London: Henry Colburn, […], 出版於 1842, →OCLC，第 204 頁:
  Even among the most experienced and discriminating of men, she rarely allowed the élite of the high-born or distinguished to escape her temporary allurements, so that she was the absolute horror, alike of the designing, whose baits she rendered nugatory, and the innocent attached ones, whose expectations she blighted, and whose young hearts were lacerated by the perfidy of those whom she misled.
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- Template:RQ:Hawthorne Scarlet Letter
- 2017年9月7日, Ferdinand Mount, “Umbrageousness”, 出自 London Review of Books‎^[1]:
  Bartolomé de las Casas’s critique of the cruelty of the Conquistadors led to his official appointment as ‘Protector of the Indians’ and to the passage of the New Laws which gave the Indians some nugatory protection.
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- 2022年4月21日, Polly Toynbee, “People are struggling to pay their energy bills – here’s a simple idea that could help”, 出自 The Guardian‎^[2]:
  The government’s response has been nugatory, its mean mitigations mostly in loans that only stoke future problems for households: high energy prices are not set to be a brief spike.
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(法律) 无效力的
- Template:RQ:Gibbon Roman Empire
- 1819, Chief Justice John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland (17 U.S. 316)
  The word "necessary" is considered as controlling the whole sentence, and as limiting the right to pass laws for the execution of the granted powers to such as are indispensable, and without which the power would be nugatory.
- 1905, William Gardner, 章號 IV, 出自 The Life of Stephen A. Douglas‎^[3]:
  He protested against the Fugitive Slave Law as necessarily nugatory and utterly impossible of execution because unanimously condemned by the public sentiment of the North.
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(計算機) （指程序中的某部分）无用而能移除的