utility
n. 实用；效用；公共设施；功用
adj. 实用的；通用的；有多种用途的
n.
功用，效用；有用的物体或器械；公用事业公司；公用事业
adj.
有多种用途的；各种工作都会做的；能在数个位置作替补的；为获得经济价值而饲养
变形
复数：utilities
双语释义
n.(名词)[U] 功用,效用 quality of being useful
[P] 公用事业 any useful service for the public, such as supplies of water to the home, the bus services, etc.
英英释义
utility[ ju:'tiləti ]
n.
a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
同义词：public utilitypublic utility companypublic-service corporation
the quality of being of practical use
同义词：usefulness
the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility
(economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice
(computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer
"a computer system provides utility programs to perform the tasks needed by most users"
同义词：utility programservice program
a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal
adj.
used of beef; usable but inferior
同义词：utility-grade
capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team
"a utility infielder"
同义词：substitute(a)
词汇搭配
用作名词 (n.)
动词+～
increase utility提高效用
lose utility失去效用
形容词+～
a great utility很有用
a little utility实用性很小
marginal utility边际效用
practical utility实用性
public utility公用事业
economic utility经济效用
～+名词
utility vehicle多用途车辆
～+介词
utility in winter在冬天的用处
词组短语
utility model实用新型（约十个国家法律承认的一种保护发明名称，期限五年）
public utility公用设施；公用事业公司
utility function效用函数；应用函数
utility value实用价值，利用价值
utility theory效用理论
marginal utility边际效用
utility boiler电站锅炉，动力锅炉；公用锅炉
utility system实用系统；应用系统；公用系统
expected utility期望效用
utility vehicle多用途运载车
utility ratio利用率；实用率
utility program[计]应用程序；通用程序；实用程序
utility maximization效用极大化，效用最大值；极大化
electric utility电气设施；电业
sport utility vehicle运动型多用途车
total utility[经济]总效用；总效果
social utility社会效用；社会福利事业
utility company公用事业公司
economic utility经济效用
practical utility实用性；实用价值
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
I have always doubted the utility of these conferences on disarmament.
我一直怀疑这些裁军会议的效用。
Their research project has limited practical utility.
他们的研究项目实用价值很有限。
Does your rent include utilities?
房租包括水电和煤气的费用吗？
Utility prices, including water, electricity, gas, rose by 5.6 per cent.
水、电、煤气在内的公用事业价格都上涨了5.6%。
This utility can be run only in safe mode.
此应用程序仅可在安全模式下运行。
权威例句
Utility, Probability, and Human Decision MakingA theory of anticipated utility
Staggered prices in a utility-maximizing framework
Staggered prices in a utility-maximizing framework
Myopia and Inconsistency in Dynamic Utility Maximization
Phylogenetic utility of the internal transcribed spacers of nuclear ribosomal DNA in plants: an example from the compositae.
Cardinal Welfare, Individualistic Ethics, and Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility
Validation and utility of a self-report version of PRIME-MD: the PHQ primary care study. Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders...
Storage management and caching in PAST, a large-scale, persistent peer-to-peer storage utility
Cloud computing and emerging IT platforms: Vision, hype, and reality for delivering computing as the 5th utility
utility
utility: see use
utility (n.)
late 14c., "fact of being useful," from Old French utilite "usefulness" (13c., Modern French + utilité), earlier utilitet (12c.), from Latin utilitatem (nominative utilitas) "usefulness, serviceableness, profit," from utilis "usable," from uti (see use (v.)). Meaning "a useful thing" is from late 15c. As a shortened form of public utility it is recorded from 1930.
1. This is the deeper meaning of marginal utility: that when society is free, even the most marginal among us need not be marginalized.
这正是边际效用的深层含义：如果这个社会是自由的，即使是我们中最边际的人也不应该被边缘化。
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2. Luckily, this utility library does most of the work for you.
幸运的是，此实用库能够为您做大部分工作。
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3. There’s another term for this: Utility computing.
上述平台还有另一个术语：效用计算。
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4. Yet happiness data do not enable us todirectly measure utility and wellbeing.
而幸福数据不会直接帮助我们衡量效用与健康。
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5. For example, we could have two utility files that would never get included together, but in the test suite, they are, since we are testing the entire application at once.
比如，我们有两个永远不会包含在一起的实用方法文件，但是在测试套件中，它们就会包含在一起，因为我们会一次性测试整个应用程序。
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6. Since utility is subjective to each individual, it cannot be measured or even compared across persons.
由于效用对于每个人来说都是主观的，它不能被衡量甚或互相比较。
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7. Even utility tools used by database administrators can be security concerns if the tenants can use them to access, or worse yet, manipulate data that does not belong to them.
即使是数据库管理员使用的实用工具也会引起安全问题，如果租户可以使用它们访问，或者更糟，操作不属于它们的数据的话。
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8. Like others, Cisco sees the potential to save a lot of money and energy use for lots of companies by implementing utility computing.
像其他公司一样，思科也看到了通过实现效用计算，来为大量公司节省金钱和能源的潜在可能性。
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9. Listing 3 shows the implementation of the utility methods I wrote.
清单3显示了我所编写的实用方法的实现。
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10. Sometimes because of some nearby utility lines, they have to build rails bending.
有时候因为附近有些公用线路，他们建立了弯曲铁轨。
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11. Continuing with this design, you can place all of the business logic and transition mapping in a utility class for use by both our controller and JSPs.
继续这个设计，您可以将所有的业务逻辑和转换映射放在一个实用程序类中，以供我们的控制器和JSP使用。
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12. For if these increases of income or utility are reduced to being infinitesimal, one can use both the symbolism and the powerful manipulations of the differential calculus.
因为，如果这些收入或效用的增加可以化为无穷小，那我们既能使用符号表示，也能利用微分学强大的操作了。
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13. This can result in errors when you compile, because the generated classes and their method signatures may be different from your original Java ones in your utility JAR files.
这将导致您在汇编的时候出现错误，因为产生的类和它们的方法特征可能与您的实用JAR文件中最初的JAR特征不一样。
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14. It symbolizes a crucial lesson about craft: utility is not contingent on perfection of form.
它象征了一个关于工艺的经验：效用并不依赖于完美的表现形式。
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15. I will mention the utility of other namespaces as they are used in this series of articles.
在本系列文章中使用到其它名称空间时，我将提到它们的效用。
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16. At the outset, the decision-maker has a "utility function" or a "preference ordering" that ranks all sets of consequences from the most preferred to the least preferred.
在一开始，决策制定者就拥有一种“效用函数”或“偏好排序”把所有结果集合从最喜欢的到最不喜欢的排列起来。
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17. One of the worst kinds of utility to write is the one you already have.
要编写的最糟糕的实用程序种类之一就是您已经有了的实用程序。
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18. One of the worst kinds of utility to write is the one you already have.
要编写的最糟糕的实用程序种类之一就是您已经有了的实用程序。
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19. It is clearly counter to the goals of users—and to the utility of the system—if crucial data is omitted.
显然，使用者并不希望数据丢失，系统也不希望数据丢失。
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20. marginal cost [profits, utility]
【经济】边际费用 [收益,效用]
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21. Unfortunately, the idiom’s success and utility have given many designers the wrong idea: They believe that replacing more common imperative controls such as buttons or butcons with underlined words will automatically result in a more usable and successful user interface.
糟糕的是，这种习惯用法的成功和用处却给了很多设计者错误的想法。 他们相信可以用下划线文本来取代更为常用的命令控件，比如按钮或者图标按钮。 这样的用户界面会更加好用并更加成功，这种想法基本上是错误的。
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22. Their very utility is based upon the fact that the human mind is challenged by such multidimensional problems, so almost by definition, these processes are not well suited to a simple, physical analog that people “automatically” comprehend.
它们的这种功能之所以有用，是因为人类大脑处理这类多维度问题的能力是很有限的，这些处理过程并不能用人类“自动”就能理解的简单物理世界中的东西来类比。
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23. Short for binder utility, an operating-system program that performs binding.
联编实用程序的简称,是一种能够实现联接和编辑的操作系统级的程序。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
24. A persona without goals can still serve as a useful communication tool, but it lacks utility as a design tool.
没有目标的人物角色仍然能够作为有用的交流工具，但作为设计工具是没有用的。
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25. The jump function provides the same utility as the Undo-Redo function pair with a single command—a 50% reduction in excise for the same functionality.
跳转功能用一个命令提供了类似一对撤销和恢复的功能，而减少了50%的附加工作。
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26. The utility of both approaches is evident in a vector drawing application (such as Illustrator or PowerPoint).
无论对于什么样的集合图形来说，对象次序的不规则性都没有任何影响（同样除非对象彼此覆盖）。
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27. We’ll talk more about help in Chapter 25, but its primary utility is as a reference, and beginners don’t need reference information; they need overview information, such as a guided tour.
我们在第25章中会谈到更多的帮助问题，帮助的主要功能是为用户提供参考。 新手不需要参考信息，他们需要概括性的信息，比如说一次全局的界面导游。
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28. It is next to impossible to fit two adjacent open menus on the screen, and having one overlay another can cause serious confusion and dislocation for a mobile user. Second, due to space constraints, it may not be feasible to include icons on menus, despite the fact that they may be of great utility to a walking user who may find an icon easier to identify than a word.
在如此小的屏幕上几乎不可能同时放置两个相邻的菜单，如果要交叠，则容易让使用者产生严重的混淆和费解；其次，由于屏幕尺寸的限制，在菜单中包含图标也不可行。 尽管使用者在走路时，可能图标会比文字更容易辨识。
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