dead letter

英 [ˌded ˈletə(r)]

美 [ˌded ˈletər]

n.  无人遵守的法律; 形同虚设的规定; 空文; 死信; 无法投递(或退回)的邮件

法律

牛津词典

noun

• 无人遵守的法律；形同虚设的规定；空文
  a law or an agreement that still exists but that is ignored
• 死信；无法投递（或退回）的邮件
  a letter that cannot be delivered to an address or to the person who sent it

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 形同虚设的法律（或协议）；空文
  If you say that a law or agreement is adead letter, you mean that it still exists but people ignore it.
  1. No one does anything about it and the law becomes a dead letter.
     没有人执行它，该法律变成了一纸空文。

英英释义

noun

• mail that can neither be delivered nor returned
  Synonym:dead mail
• the state of something that has outlived its relevance
  Synonym:non-issue

双语例句

• It also forbade exchange rate manipulation but the term was never coherently defined and the relevant provision became a dead letter.
  它也禁止汇率操纵，但这个术语从未得到过一致的定义，相关条款成为一纸空文。
• Our appeal remained a dead letter.
  我们的呼吁犹如石沉大海。
• Greek was a dead letter to him.
  希腊文他可是一个字也不识。
• In addition, it is a good system will also need bodies to implement, or it amounted to a dead letter.
  另外，再好的制度也需要人来贯彻执行，否则无异于一纸空文。
• To reign in the late escape people basically disappeared, although the law did not escape were abolished, has lost its value and significance of its existence, become a dead letter.
  到康熙中后期，逃人基本绝迹，逃人法虽未被废止，却失去了其存在价值和意义，成为一纸空文。
• The dispute between two countries was unavoidable because of its own deficiencies of the treaty, and the treaty became a dead letter.
  由于禁酒条约自身的缺陷，两国难以避免地出现纠纷，禁酒条约也沦为一纸空文。
• If the preferential agricultural policy implementation is not in place, and even to develop unreasonable, not timely introduction of preferential agricultural policy, is bound to make a dead letter.
  如果惠农政策实施不到位，乃至制定不合理，出台不及时，则必然会使惠农政策成为一纸空文。
• This is a dead letter, so I can not deliver it.
  这是一封盲信，我没有办法投递。
• The key point in the property punishment is in the implementation. The property can not be executed is like a dead letter. While the main crux of the property punishment is that punishment is difficult to perform or not performed.
  财产刑的关键在于执行，不能得到执行的财产刑判决无异于一纸空文，而财产刑的主要症结就在于难予执行或不执行。
• No one does anything about it and the law becomes a dead letter.
  没有人执行它，该法律变成了一纸空文。