dead letter

noun

1. 无人遵守的法律；形同虚设的规定；空文
   a law or an agreement that still exists but that is ignored
2. 死信；无法投递（或退回）的邮件
   a letter that cannot be delivered to an address or to the person who sent it

1. N-COUNT 形同虚设的法律（或协议）；空文
   If you say that a law or agreement is a dead letter, you mean that it still exists but people ignore it.
   1. No one does anything about it and the law becomes a dead letter.
      没有人执行它，该法律变成了一纸空文。

1. No one does anything about it and the law becomes a dead letter.
   没有人执行它，该法律变成了一纸空文。
2. Rules and regulations, once set up, should not be turned into a dead letter.
   规章制度一经订立，不应成为一纸虚文。
3. After the proposal was put forward it simply remained a dead letter.
   建议提出后，却如石沉大海。
4. However, newly created queue managers are not configured to use a dead letter queue.
   但是，新建队列没有配置为使用死信队列。
5. The will itself is made a dead letter.
   遗嘱本身成了一纸空文了。
6. It is regrettable that our appeal remains a dead letter.
   遗憾的是，我们的呼吁没有得到响应。
7. A dead person can't write a letter.
   一个逝去的人是不会写信的。
8. It also forbade exchange rate manipulation but the term was never coherently defined and the relevant provision became a dead letter.
   它也禁止汇率操纵，但这个术语从未得到过一致的定义，相关条款成为一纸空文。
9. This law has become a dead letter.
   此法已成为一纸空文。
10. Rules and regulations, once set up, should not be turned into a dead letter. related to or involving literary fiction.
    规章制度一经订立，不应成为一纸虚文。与文学虚构有关，或包含文学虚构。
11. Our appeal remained a dead letter.
    我们的呼吁犹如石沉大海。
12. A telephone call is dead as soon as it's over, but a letter can last forever.
    电话一打完就结束了，而信件可以永久保存。
13. This is a dead letter, so I can not deliver it.
    这是一封盲信，我没有办法投递。
14. Greek was a dead letter to him.
    希腊文他可是一个字也不识。
15. For instance, we were using ActiveMQ when it did not have a strong dead letter processing capability.
    例如，在ActiveMQ还没有一强大的死信处理能力的时候我们正在使用它。
16. Articles of association should be a place where the investors compete for their interest and regulate the orders of the company rather than a dead letter.
    公司章程不应再是一纸空文，而应当是投资者争取投资利益，规范公司管理秩序的战场。
17. If the preferential agricultural policy implementation is not in place, and even to develop unreasonable, not timely introduction of preferential agricultural policy, is bound to make a dead letter.
    如果惠农政策实施不到位，乃至制定不合理，出台不及时，则必然会使惠农政策成为一纸空文。
18. The key point in the property punishment is in the implementation. The property can not be executed is like a dead letter. While the main crux of the property punishment is that punishment is difficult to perform or not performed.
    财产刑的关键在于执行，不能得到执行的财产刑判决无异于一纸空文，而财产刑的主要症结就在于难予执行或不执行。
19. To reign in the late escape people basically disappeared, although the law did not escape were abolished, has lost its value and significance of its existence, become a dead letter.
    到康熙中后期，逃人基本绝迹，逃人法虽未被废止，却失去了其存在价值和意义，成为一纸空文。
20. The author believes that the address tenure issues, the most fundamental is to improve laws and regulations at the same time, to increase its operability, and prevent it from becoming a dead letter.
    我认为要解决其归属问题，最根本的是在完善法律法规的同时，还应增加其可操作性，防止其成为一纸空文。
21. In addition, it is a good system will also need bodies to implement, or it amounted to a dead letter.
    另外，再好的制度也需要人来贯彻执行，否则无异于一纸空文。
22. Without sound implementation, even a perfect law would be nothing more than a dead letter.
    制定再完美的法律，如果不能得到很好的实施，也无异于一纸空文。
23. The dispute between two countries was unavoidable because of its own deficiencies of the treaty, and the treaty became a dead letter.
    由于禁酒条约自身的缺陷，两国难以避免地出现纠纷，禁酒条约也沦为一纸空文。

noun

1. mail that can neither be delivered nor returned

   Synonym:    dead mail

2. the state of something that has outlived its relevance

   Synonym:    non-issue