redundant: [17] Etymologically, something that is redundant ‘overflows’ because there is too much of it. The word comes from the present participle of Latin redundāre ‘flow back, overflow’ (source also of English redound [14]). This was a compound verb formed from the prefix re- ‘back, again’ and undāre ‘rise in waves, surge’, a derivative of unda ‘wave’ (source of English undulate). => redound, surround, undulate
redundant (adj.)
1590s, from Latin redundantem (nominative redundans), present participle of redundare, literally "overflow, pour over; be over-full;" figuratively "be in excess," from re- "again" (see re-) + undare "rise in waves," from unda "a wave" (see water (n.1)). Of persons, in employment situations, from 1928, chiefly British. Related: Redundantly.
雙語例句
1. Changes in technology may mean that once-valued skills are now redundant.
技術上的革新可能意味著曾經被重視的技術現在已變得多余。
來自柯林斯例句
2. My husband was made redundant late last year.
我丈夫去年年底被裁了。
來自柯林斯例句
3. to be made redundant from your job
成為冗員而被裁減
來自《權威詞典》
4. There are too many redundant words in this book.