1530s, "subject to dispensation," from Medieval Latin dispensabilis, from dispensare (see dispense). Meaning "that can be done without" is from 1640s. Related: Dispensability.
实用例句
1. They looked on music and art lessons as dispensable.
他们认为音乐课和美术课是可有可无的。
来自《权威词典》
2. Delete what is dispensable and give more prominence to the essentials.
可以不说的去掉,该说的就可以更突出.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. Since none of the four is dispensable, they are equally important.
实际上,这四种力量既然是缺一不可的, 所以是同等重要的.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. All those people in the middle are dispensable.
所有那些立场骑墙的人都可要可不要。
来自辞典例句
5. Otherwise Miller would become a dispensable figurehead.
