Undue

(adj.) not yet payable; 'an undue loan' .

(adj.) not appropriate or proper (or even legal) in the circumstances; 'undue influence'; 'I didn't want to show undue excitement'; 'accused of using undue force' .

(adj.) lacking justification or authorization; 'desire for undue private profit'; 'unwarranted limitations of personal freedom' .

杰弗里整理

• An undue love of Self leads to the most monstrous crimes and occasions the greatest misfortunes both in States and Families. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• No, I am not conscious of undue excitement. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Had she shown an undue eagerness for victory? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• She will not even permit of undue familiarity. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• In the preceding Section we saw that undue pressure of a gas may cause explosion. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The weapon is air cooled and can be fired steadily for about 10 minutes without undue heating. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This chapter has run to undue length, but it must not close without one citation from high authority as to the service of the military telegraph corps so often referred to in it. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• What a blessing it is, when undue influence does not survive the grave! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Yet she had not to complain of an undue shortening of existence; her faded person shewed that life had naturally spent itself. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Damp clothing should never be worn, because the moisture in it tends to evaporate at the expense of the bodily heat, and this undue loss of heat from the body produces chills. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• But even in such things there was an undue reliance upon mere custom, followed blindly rather than understandingly. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Undue humility makes tyranny; weak concession creates selfishness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• And undue absorption at the outset in the physical object of sense hampers this growth. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• There was no undue loss of life in reaching the lower end of Monterey, except that sustained by Garland's command. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• While I do not propose to cause them any undue annoyance or loss, I cannot consent to leave myself under any restraint by stipulations. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Master of the workhouse,' rejoined Mr. Bumble, slowly and impressively, to check any undue familiarity the stranger might otherwise assume. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Ever and anon she spread her satin dress over an undue portion of the bench, or laid her gloves or her embroidered handkerchief upon it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• In the calm with which you learnt you had become suddenly rich, I read a mind clear of the vice of Demas:--lucre had no undue power over you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The next point was to secure a joint between contiguous rails such as would permit of the passage of several thousand amperes without introducing undue resistance. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It is possible to induce undue and crippling dependence upon sense-presentations. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

手打:斯坦