Redundant

　　What you think it means: Repetitive.你認(rèn)為單詞的含義是：重復(fù)的。

　　What it really means: Unnecessarily excessive.單詞的真正含義是：過(guò)剩的。

　　This one is tough because you can use it wrong but unintentionally use it right. When you repeat something a bunch of times, it can become redundant, but redundant expands far beyond just repeating things over and over. A popular thing companies are doing now is firing people but instead of calling it"getting fired," they call it"eliminating redundancies." The premise being that the employee they’re firing is unnecessary and excessive and they are thus eliminating them. In pretty much any scenario where there is simply too much of something, it is redundant.這個(gè)單詞有點(diǎn)復(fù)雜，因?yàn)槟憧赡芸倳?huì)用錯(cuò)，卻也不一定什么時(shí)候就用對(duì)了。當(dāng)你不斷重復(fù)某事很多次后，事情可能就會(huì)變得redundant(多余的)，但是redundant這個(gè)詞所包含的意思遠(yuǎn)不止“不斷重復(fù)”。當(dāng)下公司都很流行解聘雇員，但他們不會(huì)說(shuō)“炒你魷魚(yú)”，而是稱之為“裁員”;但前提是，被裁的員工是可有可無(wú)的、多余的，這樣就可以裁掉了。在很多情況下，如果某事太多太剩，那就是redundant(多余的)了。