一日一词【72】irrelevant

irrelevant

如果我们要用英语表示，“这句话与我们讨论的事无关。”我们可以说，“This remark has nothing to do with what we are discussing.”

如果我们想改变一下文体，使语气更正式一些，我们便可说，“This remark is irrelevant to what we are discussing.”

Irrelevant由两个部分组成：ir-表示否定，相当于not，relevant意为having something to do with/related to (与……有关)。所以，irrelevant意为having nothing to do with/not to the point/off the subject(与……无关；不切题；离题)。请再看以下例句：

A question about arithmetic is irrelevant in a French lesson.
在法语课上提出有关数学的问题是不是离题了。

The book is full of irrelevant information.
这本书里堆砌了不少无关的资料。