supererogatory

1 As mine was the only hymn-book in the assembly, the mention of the number was a bit of supererogatory business.

2 The first-lieutenant, followed by the master, brushed by him, and was up the ladder before his supererogatory communication could be delivered.

3 "Beyond all doubt," says Gfrorer, "the ancient Jewish synagogue inculcated the doctrine of supererogatory good works, the merit of which went to benefit the departed souls."

4 But supposing there were superabundant merits, supererogatory works of Christ and the saints, who has determined their quantity?

5 Hannah performed the supererogatory task of reading the text aloud to the vicar, who endeavoured while he listened to conceal the smile that found its way to his lips.

6 He’s an ineffective, chronically ruminative man who thinks of himself as a “supererogatory weirdo.”

7 A prolonged and vicious croak from the end of the street argued that Berry's patience was wearing thin, but to have asked the girl to make haste would have been supererogatory.

8 Many who had sinned less deeply, hurried to the King with supererogatory offers of service.

9 They passed into the ancient shipyard which lay beyond, and which was now a mere vague, grass-grown approach to the waterside, bestrewn with a few remnants of supererogatory timber.

10 ‘What you mean,’ said the Bibliotaph, ‘is, that they would look upon it in the light of supererogatory supplementary evidence.’

11 ‘Didactic poetry,’ he declares, ‘is my abhorrence: nothing can be equally well expressed in prose that is not tedious and supererogatory in verse.’

12 For one so often finds that acts specially showing delicacy and considerateness, little supererogatory works of kindness, are taken unkindly.

13 To them it is supererogatory to do battle for the power of a few nobles.

14 "Nothing," said Shelley, "can be equally well expressed in prose that is not tedious and supererogatory in verse."

15 It was supererogatory for her to gloat ( Mary McCarthy )

她也在一旁幸灾乐祸地看得出神,真是多余 ( 玛丽麦卡锡 )

16 This: Do be good to us by a supererogatory virtue and write to us.

17 On this supposition, vacillating syntax, and improbable incident had a certain pathos for us, like the extremely supererogatory pincushions and ill-devised nightcaps that are offered for sale by a blind man. 

18 These supererogatory merits were at the disposal of the pope, who could, in effect, offer them for sale.

19 She had just sufficient strength for the sudden breaking off of their engagement, none for explanation, and none, alas! to save her from regretting her act of supererogatory virtue.

20 It is supererogatory to assume that Shakespeare had Chapman’s phrases in his mind when alluding to superstitions which were universally acknowledged. 

1 额外的

special extra odd excessive supernumerary

2 多余

recrementitious spare unnecessary unwanted surplus redundant superfluous gash uncalled-for supernumerary otiose excrescent redundancy superfluity surplusage more needless uninvited superabundant wordishness overabundance de trop to spare

3 画蛇添足

paint the lily

4 额外

special extra odd excessive supernumerary extra-

5 职务以外的

extraofficial

6 多余的

recrementitious spare unnecessary unwanted surplus redundant superfluous gash uncalled-for supernumerary otiose excrescent more needless uninvited superabundant de trop to spare

7 余功

supererogation aftereffect