1·All those people in the middle are dispensable.
那些在中间的人都是可有可无的。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·They looked on music and art lessons as dispensable.
他们认为音乐课和美术课是可有可无的。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·Amid the current concerns about the federal deficit, reaching toward the stars seems a dispensable luxury—as if saving one-thousandth of a single year's budget would solve our problems.
在当前对联邦赤字的担忧中，“伸手摘星”的尝试似乎是一种可有可无的奢侈——似乎只要一年省下千分之一的预算就能解决我们的问题。
4·If he is right about the technology too, future generations will come to see English as something like calligraphy or Latin: prestigious and traditional, but increasingly dispensable.
如果他有关技术的观点也是正确的话，那么英语在后代人眼中就如同书法和拉丁文一样，受人敬仰，韵味悠长，但日益可有可无。
5·Similarly, an awful lot of what fills up the world's servers, from online shops to the latest celeb videos, seems dispensable too.
与此相似，大量的垃圾信息都储存在世界各个角落的服务器中，包括网上商店和最新名人视频等等，似乎这些数据也都可有可无。