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

• 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。
• 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。
• Using this utility, you explored tcp and udp workload tuning while also learning some other noteworthy parameters.
  您使用这个实用工具研究了tcp和udp工作负载优化，同时还了解了一些其他值得关注的参数。
• This ware is suitable for decorative purpose but unsuitable for utility.
  这种器皿中看不中用。
• Making debug and release versions can be automated by the make utility.
  可通过make实用程序将调试版本和发行版本的制作自动化。
• There is so much you can monitor and tune within OEM that there are actually books on this utility.
  在OEM中，您可以对许多方面进行监视和优化，事实上，有很多介绍这个实用工具的书籍。
• The previous example illustrated the control of domains using the command-line utility virsh.
  上一个例子说明了如何使用命令行工具virsh实现对域的控制。
• 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。
• He inwardly questioned the utility of his work.
  他内心质疑自己的工作是否有用。
• Each command-line utility provides a-h option, which displays a list of the options available for that command.
  每个命令行实用工具都提供了一个-h选项来显示对该命令可用的选项列表。