英 [ɡrəˈtjuːɪtəs] 美 [ɡrəˈtuːɪtəs]
adj. 无理由的，无端的；免费的
gratuitous /ɡrəˈtjuːɪtəs/ TEM8
形容词 If you describe something as gratuitous, you mean that it is unnecessary, and often harmful or upsetting. 不必要的
There's too much crime and gratuitous violence on TV.
电视上充斥着过多的犯罪与无端的暴力。
副词 不必要地
They wanted me to change the title to something less gratuitously offensive.
他们想让我把标题改得不那么过于无礼。
without cause
a gratuitous insult
costing nothing
同义词： complimentary / costless / free / gratis(p)
unnecessary and unwarranted
同义词： needless / uncalled-for
赠予的，授予的
无代价的
... dislocate 使离开原来位置，打乱正常秩序 gratuitous 无偿的，没有理由的。 debauch 使失落，放荡 ...
... conflict;斗争，冲突，抵触， gratuitous;免费的，无理由的 remote;遥远的，偏僻的，细微的 ...
乍然没来由(Gratuitous)的想写个总结。富贵不能淫，贫贱不能移，威武不能屈。
... anonymous：匿名的 gratuitous：无理由的，不值得的 gimmick：噱头 ...
gratis 免费的
gratis 免费地
gratuitously 无偿地；不必要地；无缘无故地；平白地
无理由的，无端的；免费的
There's too much crime and gratuitous violence on TV.
电视上充斥着过多的犯罪与无端的暴力。
And I think it's just totally gratuitous. It's mindless.
我认为这就是完全无偿。这是盲目的。
With the climate crisis deepening, Britain can't afford this amount of gratuitous waste.
因为气候危机越来越严重，英国承担不起如此大量的不必要的浪费。
"This movie,when you watch it at least when I do you expect it to be gratuitous and it is not.
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You can go on or you can go off and actually, how about some gratuitous use of technology?
你可以自由的开或者关，你认为这种有必要使用这种技术么？
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No group would last very long if it promoted gratuitous attacks on neighbors or discouraged childrearing.
Most Americans thought of it as a gratuitous handout to greedy Wall Street executives.
For sheer gratuitous destruction, you'd have to conjure a suburban teenager on Mischief Night.