fool's errand

fool's errand

美 　英

• n.徒劳的差使
• 网络徒劳无功的工作；徒劳的工作；徒劳无功的任务

英汉解释

n.

1. 徒劳的差使

英英解释

n.	1. a task that is performed for no good reason or that fails to accomplish anything useful

例句

In an interview with The Atlantic magazine, the top U. S. diplomat accused China "of trying to stop history, which is a fool's errand. "

在接受《大西洋》月刊的采访是，这位美国高级外交官称中国“妄图改变历史”。

Gibbs: Jack, it's a fool's errand. Well, you know better than me the tales of the Black Pearl.

杰克：我想去寻找黑珍珠。我知道黑珍珠在哪儿。我会找到它的。

It was a death wish, a fool's errand, and he had never courted death or been a fool.

这是一次死亡之旅，一次傻瓜差事，而他，从未被判死刑，也从来没有当过傻瓜。

So I'd agree with you. A fool's errand, no doubt about it.

所以我同意你的话，我这些举动还真是愚蠢行为，毫无疑问。

"One hopes that these things are useful, " he said, "but it can be a fool's errand to try to detect any immediate use for them. "

“人们希望这些东西是有用的，”他说，“但是，试图探究这些交流的直接效用是傻瓜才做的事情。”

Trying to single out financiers from entrepreneurs is a fool's errand: you will end up hurting both.

试图从企业家中挑选出金融家不愚蠢的：最终会两败俱伤。

But trying to legislate trade balance is a fool's errand.

然而，要知道通过立法来平衡贸易只是徒劳。

By sending him out there on a plausible fool's errand, it keeps the heat off of us while we engage in the business at hand.

把那帮蠢货差遣去做个看起来很正式的任务可以使我们忙手头上的工作的时候不那么受关注。

The people who advised to come to me for money sent you on a fool's errand. I never lend money.

建议我们到这儿来借钱的人让你白跑了一趟了，我从不借钱。

Micro-optimizing the steps of an inefficient algorithm is a fool's errand.

对低效算法步骤进行细微的优化是徒劳无益的事情。

Certainly it's a fool's errand to try to catch the market's twists and turns.

努力赶上市场的每一个起落，当然是傻子才做的事。

A fool's errand . . . but so is chipping at a blank concrete wall for twenty-eight years.

我真傻，但是花了二十七年的光阴在混凝土墙中敲敲打打，也同样傻。

He bristled at Pollan's statement that turning the "ecological clock to 1492 is a fool's errand, futile and pointless to boot. "

他为Pollan写的将生态状况回到1492年是件白痴的工作，无用，而且对将来无意义的，这句话而战栗。

Even in quiet times, predicting the paths of exchange rates is a fool's errand.

即便是在正常时期，判断汇率走势也是愚蠢的举动。

We need to abandon that fool's errand in favour of a new approach: minilateralism.

我们需要放弃这个愚蠢的使命，转而采取一种新的方式：最小化的多边主义（minilateralism）。

Enduring adoration for the maestro's mind-bending 1987 creation, The Fool's Errand.

对艺术大师1987年令人费解的杰作《傻瓜的使命》的持久的崇拜。

Caesar wouldn't pull a hair for his eagle. You're on a fool's errand.

鹰对恺撒来说无足轻重，你们的任务毫无意义。

Do you think we're on a fool's errand?

你认为我们在徒劳的奔波？。

His fool's errand will keep him most occupied!

他的白痴差事会让他忙的团团转

A fool's errand, you say.

你会说，这还真是愚蠢的行为。

I wonder on what fool's errand an earwig, or a moth, or a sow bug, would visit that clean corner of the house behind the toilet;

我在想为什么这些小飞虫和蠼螋以及飞蛾会那么愚蠢飞到洗手间旁那个干净的角落。