To a casual observer, he might appear dispensable.

在无心的旁观者看来，他似乎可有可无。

680. He repents having compensated the dispensable pesion for fear of penalty.

他后悔因害怕处罚而补偿了不必要的养老金。

Bartleby realises he is entirely dispensable: an amuse bouche between the meaty stuff of structural reform and vaccines.

巴托比的专栏作者意识到自己完全是可有可无的，只是一个介于结构性改革和疫苗之间的开胃小菜罢了。

The opposite would be " dispensable." If something is dispensable, you don't need it.

相反的是“可有可无的”。如果某样东西是可有可无的，那么你就不需要它。

So, when we say someone is indispensable, we mean that they are not dispensable.

所以，当我们说某人不可或缺时，我们的意思是他们不是可有可无的。

So they began deleting genes that they thought might be dispensable, based on earlier research.

因此，根据早期研究，他们开始删除他们认为可能可有可无的基因。

Many things are dispensable: people shouldn’t be.

很多东西都是可有可无的：人不应该。

Lauren think she's indispensable, but people thought typewriters would be indispensable, and now they are in fact, for the most part, dispensable.

劳伦认为她是不可或缺的， 但人们认为打字机是不可或缺的，而现在它们实际上在很大程度上是可有可无的。

The opposite of indispensable is dispensable, and that, what we would call prefix that comes at the beginning of a word, the prefix " in" means not, in many cases.

不可缺少的反义词是可有可无的，在很多情况下， 我们所说的出现在单词开头的前缀， 前缀“in” 的意思是“不” 。