British EnglishBrE formalNEED# to be no longer necessary 不再被需要
He found out he was surplus to requirements in London and left.
他发现自己留在伦敦是多余的,于是就离开了。
Examples from the Corpus
be surplus to requirements• It may be some time yet before Mansell's servicesare surplus to requirements.• It was very pale and had no expression, as though expressions were surplus to requirements.• Most housing developersbelieve about 30,000 of these are surplus to requirements.• So now you have a new baby, your 15-year-old is surplus to requirements.• The social services department says the three homes are surplus to requirements.