utility

英 [juːˈtɪləti]

美 [juːˈtɪləti]

n.  公用事业; 实用; 效用; 有用; 实用程序; 公用程序
adj.  多用途的; 多效用的; 多功能的

复数：utilities　

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牛津词典

noun

• 公用事业
  a service provided for the public, for example an electricity, water or gas supply
  1. the administration of public utilities
     公共事业的管理
• 实用；效用；有用
  the quality of being useful
• 实用程序；公用程序
  a piece of computer software that performs a particular task

adj.

• 多用途的；多效用的；多功能的
  that can be used for several different purposes
  1. an all-round utility player (= one who can play equally well in several different positions in a sport)
     全面型选手

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 功用;效用;实用
  Theutilityof something is its usefulness.
  1. Belief in the utility of higher education is shared by students nationwide...
     全国的学生都相信高等教育是有用的。
  2. He inwardly questioned the utility of his work.
     他内心质疑自己的工作是否有用。
• N-COUNT 公用事业
  Autilityis an important service such as water, electricity, or gas that is provided for everyone, and that everyone pays for.
  1. ...public utilities such as gas, electricity and phones.
     煤气、电和电话等公用事业

英英释义

noun

• the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility
  1. the cost of utilities never decreases
  2. all the utilities were lost after the hurricane
• 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
  1. the price of the house included all utilities
• the quality of being of practical use
  Synonym:usefulness
• (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer
  1. a computer system provides utility programs to perform the tasks needed by most users
  Synonym:utility programservice program
• a company that performs a public service
  Synonym:public utilitypublic utility companypublic-service corporation
• (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice

双语例句

• The utility was entering new and uncharted territory.
  公司进入了一个陌生的、未知的领域。
• If you create a very useful script, you can even deploy it as a system-wide utility.
  如果您创建了一个非常有用的脚本，您甚至可以将它部署为系统范围的实用程序。
• A fur coat has more utility in winter than in autumn.
  毛皮外衣在冬天比在秋天更有用。
• You can invoke this utility from the Control Center, in batch jobs, or using the command-line processor.
  您可以从控制中心（ControlCenter）、批处理作业或通过使用命令行处理器来调用该实用程序。
• Ksetup: This utility puts the administration and the information of the KDC servers in the LDAP directory.
  ksetup：这个实用工具将KDC服务器的管理和信息放置于LDAP目录中。
• The DB2 UDB load utility very efficiently writes data from one or more input files to a database table.
  DB2UDBload工具非常高效地将一个或多个输入文件中的数据写到数据库表中。
• He inwardly questioned the utility of his work.
  他内心质疑自己的工作是否有用。
• For example, this daemon allows the jps utility to list processes on a remote system.
  例如，这个守护程序允许jps工具列出远程系统中的进程。
• You'll find this a handy utility for debugging problems and improving query performance.
  您将发现这个方便的实用程序可用于调试问题和提高查询性能。
• This is analogous to many Java methods calling one utility method.
  这就好比许多Java方法调用一个工具方法。