| 单词 | irrelevant |
| 释义 | irrelevant (ɪrelɪvənt ) 1. adjective If you describe something such as a fact or remark as irrelevant, you mean that it is not connected with what you are discussing or dealing with. ...irrelevant details. The government decided that their testimony would be irrelevant to the case. [+ to] irrelevantly adverb [ADVERB with verb] She would have hated the suit, I thought irrelevantly. 2. adjective If you say that something is irrelevant, you mean that it is not important in a situation. Their old hard-won skills were irrelevant. The choice of subject matter is irrelevant. Collocations: irrelevant information Still, the authors conclude, the evidence indicates that judges and other expert decision-makers 'are not immune to the influence of extraneous irrelevant information'. Times, Sunday Times At the same time, edit out old or irrelevant information - the more recent achievements matter most. The Sun You think through all options before coming to a conclusion, allowing you to make wiser decisions without being persuaded by irrelevant information. Times, Sunday Times The novices, by contrast, had 'difficulty filtering out irrelevant information' and seemed to have lights on all over the brain. Times, Sunday Times By then, the irrelevant information had interfered with the memory task, making the older group less accurate. Times, Sunday Times Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible. Times, Sunday Times We don't make mistakes or suffer regrets, we are not influenced by irrelevant issues and of course we always tell the truth. Times, Sunday Times It's not about any of the ultimately irrelevant issues about which politicians scream. Times, Sunday Times Don't waste your time on irrelevant issues. Times, Sunday Times But the two often quarrel and fight over irrelevant issues. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Likes or dislikes are not an irrelevant question to sports fans, who ally themselves with a player for all kinds of reasons, mostly unconnected with talent or performance. Times, Sunday Times Conciseness can be achieved through removing redundant and irrelevant questions, which can add frustration to the participant, but not value to the research. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Relevant questions are compared against comparison questions (which should represent false answers) and irrelevant questions (which should represent true answers). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Additionally, they were required to answer irrelevant questions and present two medical certificates. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Yesterday's proforma full-year numbers are largely irrelevant, being merely the crunching together of the two companies' results. Times, Sunday Times The issue of sovereignty would be seen by that generation as largely irrelevant. Times, Sunday Times Admittedly, many of those events and issues seem esoteric to us, and largely irrelevant to modern political discourse. Times, Sunday Times Let us discount the former, because, unless you break records, it's largely irrelevant. Times, Sunday Times Much of what happened in the opening 56 minutes was rendered largely irrelevant because of the drama that was to come. Times, Sunday Times They're not trained in interpreting the law, so they listen to factors that are legally irrelevant. Christianity Today The referendum result was legally irrelevant. Times, Sunday Times When the fiefdom was held by a group of feoffees, the death of the beneficial holder was legally irrelevant to its continued holding by them. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Very often the small, seemingly irrelevant piece has been found to be the stone on which many other things depend. Christianity Today But they are often seemingly irrelevant to the page you're viewing. Times, Sunday Times The truth was seemingly irrelevant. Times, Sunday Times Solution focused therapists may talk about seemingly irrelevant life experiences such as leisure activities, meeting with friends, relaxing and managing conflict. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The inclusion of seemingly irrelevant and obscure clips from films and cartoons gave the show a very surreal and non sequitur quality. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Those shareholders are important to the company but, in terms of the bid, it's totally irrelevant. Times, Sunday Times The prices are now totally irrelevant and fashions in antiques do change. Times, Sunday Times Those in the world of entertainment are so far removed from the grinding everyday world of work as to be totally irrelevant to the argument. Times, Sunday Times And speaking of totally irrelevant cultural artefacts. Times, Sunday Times When the case went to appeal, the original judge was criticised for giving too much weight to the 'totally irrelevant' fact that the couple jointly owned a cat. The Sun Whether they had fallen behind others was regarded as utterly irrelevant. Times, Sunday Times Rehearsals and rugby training are utterly irrelevant unless the stars can perform when the lights go down. Times, Sunday Times What the voters want seems utterly irrelevant to this cabal threatening our democracy. The Sun A simple utterly irrelevant inquiry that hit him in the solar plexus, like a kick from a mule. Times, Sunday Times Our independent deterrent has become virtually irrelevant except in the context of domestic politics. Times, Sunday Times With 218bhp on tap it hits 62mph from rest in just 7.4sec, making the petrol models virtually irrelevant to most buyers. Times, Sunday Times Fatuous and virtually irrelevant rubbish. The Sun At this point, what you sing about, what instruments you play, how often you tour and how old you are has become virtually irrelevant. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As a result, by the late 1990s parliamentary politics had become virtually irrelevant and alternative avenues for political expression were curtailed as well. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Other considerations, such as the desire to punish landlords who ignored the regulations, are wholly irrelevant. Times, Sunday Times But he's almost wholly irrelevant to the significance of the story, and that makes the very significance of the book of life a bit shallow. Christianity Today Strikes me that in such circumstances, the intentions and origins of the project, the company's motivation, the nuances and aesthetics of the endeavour, all become wholly irrelevant. Times, Sunday Times He claimed an analysis of 27 investigations would be a 'quite enormous task' and was 'totally disproportionate' as much of the officers' pleadings were 'wholly irrelevant to the proceedings'. Times, Sunday Times Those are factors relevant to cases of subscription for shares issued by the company but wholly irrelevant to purchases from third parties of already issued shares. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 不相关的 Japanese: 無関係な |
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