To a casual observer, he might appear dispensable.

在无心旁观者看来，他似乎可有可无。

680. He repents having compensated the dispensable pesion for fear of penalty.

他后悔因害怕处罚而补偿了不必要养老金。

Bartleby realises he is entirely dispensable: an amuse bouche between the meaty stuff of structural reform and vaccines.

巴托比专栏作者意识到自己完全是可有可无，只是一个介于结构性改革和间开罢了。

The opposite would be " dispensable." If something is dispensable, you don't need it.

相反就是“可有可无”。如果某样东西是可有可无，你就不需要它。

So, when we say someone is indispensable, we mean that they are not dispensable.

所以，当我们说某人不可或缺时，我们意思是他们不是可有可无。

So they began deleting genes that they thought might be dispensable, based on earlier research.

于是他们开始删除那些根据早期研究认为可能是可有可无基因。

Eventually, you have to make yourself dispensable, not indispensable.

最终，你需要让自己变得可有可无，而非不可或缺。

So we're talking about labour, some of which is dispensable.

所以我们谈到劳动力，其中一些是可以省去。

They were essentially dispensable for this particular job in LM.

在脑膜转移这一特定情况下，它们基本上是可有可无。

Many things are dispensable: people shouldn’t be.

很多东西都是可有可无：人不应该。

We serve a league that has shown they think championship coaches and Hall of Fame players are dispensable, and that's fine.

我们效力于一个联盟， 它已表明其认为冠军教练和名人堂球员都是可有可无，这没关系。

A clandestine operation that had lasted for decades brought down by the very thing they'd considered dispensable, the child's formidable intellect.

一项秘密行动持续了数十年，最终却被他们视为可有可无东西——那个孩子非凡智力——所终结。