pointless
美 [ˈpɔɪntləs]
英 ['pɔɪntləs] 
- adj.无意义的;无目标的;不值得做的
- 网络不得要领的;无谓;钝的
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英汉双解
1. | 无意义的;无目标的;不值得做的having no purpose; not worth doing |
| We searched until we knew it would be pointless to continue. 我们搜索又搜索,直到觉得继续下去也枉然时才罢手。 |
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I've never been stuck in such a slump before, my life seems pointless.
我从来没这么低谷过,生活似乎变得毫无意义。
"It's a bit of a marketing push, " Mr. Soneira said. "It's really pointless for a small TV under typical viewing conditions. "
“这是一种营销手段,”索内拉说,“对于一台小电视机来说,在正常的视觉条件下,这种技术毫无意义。”
If you've read one of my books, thanks. I write them to be read, so without you, it would be a pointless exercise.
如果你读过我写的书,那么谢谢,写书就是为了让人读,如果没有你,那些书毫无价值。
What have the locals got to do with it? the question was pointless wars not whether just or unjust.
当地人又是怎样做的呢?这里的问题是问无意义的战争,而不是这场战争是否是正义的。
To say a woman is talented and scholarly is like praising a flower for balancing on the scale with a cabbage or potato-utterly pointless.
说女人有才学,就仿佛赞美一朵花,说它在天平上称起来有白菜番薯的斤两。
Its syntax appears to be that of a succession of three imperative clauses: one pointless, one mysterious, and one scarcely even coherent.
我看到的是三个连续的祈使动词:其一毫无意义,其二神秘莫测,还有一个简直不知所云。
It is never pointless, it is always worth reading, and it has an action for you to take.
它从不是空洞的,它总是值得一读,它有一个行动,供你选择,让你采取。
However the question posed in this discussion assumes that wars can be, at least to a degree, pointless.
然而这里讨论的问题是假设这些战争可以说是,至少在某种程度上,是无意义的。
Trying to ignore a small ache until it grows into a pain is just pointless.
在小疼痛变得严重之前重视它是很重要的。
Odie, let's talk effort versus return here. you know , you can still lead a pointless life without all that running around.
(名字)我们谈谈努力与回报的问题吧。要知道,你用不着那样无头苍蝇的奔来跑去,也一样能过上毫无意义的生活。
You know you are maturing when you begin to see the hand of God in the random, baffling, and seemingly pointless circumstances of life.
当你开始看见神的手在杂乱无章、千篇一律、漫无目标的生活中带领你的时候,你便知道自己正日趋成熟。
Again I ask her: you think you now, in all the work of the most pointless waste of your time and energy work is what?
我又问她:你觉得,在你现在所有的工作中,最没有意义的最浪费你的时间精力的工作,是什么?
At present it is a question of how much power you can get from a fixed engine capacity ? as said, a wholly pointless exercise.
目前,问题在于你可以从确定的引擎容量中获得多少的马力。正如之前说过的那样,全部是无意义的练习。
Instead, when Julia goes to bed at 11pm, I pad around the house, or work until 2am or 3am. It's pointless trying to sleep any earlier.
茱莉亚晚上11点上床,而我还在屋里转悠,或者工作到凌晨2点到3点,因为再早上床是不可能睡着的。
If you smoke, you should be prepared to get lung cancer; it's pointless to ask "why did God do this to me? "
如果你抽烟的话,就别怕得癌症。再问“上帝怎么这样对我啊”没什么意义。
It may seem time-consuming or even pointless, but it's a simple method that you can put to the test to see if it helps for you.
这看起来花时间,重点还不明确,但是这个方法很简单,你可以试试,看看是否有用。
Waldfogel's work is often misinterpreted as suggesting that gift-giving is pointless.
瓦尔德弗格尔的文章常常被误解,认为他主张送礼是没有意义的。
Trying to get there by a pell-mell fielding of the costliest renewables is pointless.
所以,通过运用大量昂贵的可再生能源来达到低碳减排的目的是毫无意义的。
Going on, as we do, obsessively trying to improve our conditions, can become an end in itself, and a pointless distraction.
像我们这样妄想改善生活,只会带来毁灭和混乱。
But to be blunt, measuring the PageRank of your own website or that of your competitors is absolutely pointless.
但坦白地讲,衡量你自己或竞争对手网站的PageRank是毫无意义的举措。
He said it was "pointless to think" governments' borrowing costs could be lowered for a protracted period by "external" intervention.
德拉吉表示,那种认为政府借贷成本能靠“外部”干预长期维持较低水平的想法“很不靠谱”。
Some people say that I am a bit cold, I said a little lonely, lonely, I said, pointless, I do not deny that.
有人说我有点冷漠,说我有点孤独,说我寂寞无谓,我不否认。
Picking fights with neighbors over minor issues is pointless, especially now, and on this point Krugman and I are in synch.
因矿产资源同邻国产生争执是无意义的,特别是在当前形势下。我和克鲁格曼在在这个观点是一致的。
I had fallen so far behind that it seemed pointless trying to catch up.
我落后太多,似乎追赶下去也毫无意义。
all day? That sounds really boring and pointless. Think about it-you could've worked for eight hours and.
所以,这就是你整天在做的事?听起来既无聊又没有意义。想想看,你可以工作。
At least that's the thinking. But remember, the thinking a decade ago was that stimulus was pointless.
至少想法如此,但要记得,10年前这样的刺激并未奏效。
At this point it seems as if the mini stasis is pointless.
基于这点,看起来小型停滞期是无意义的。
We would not want you wasting your energy or time on pointless actions, when there will be so much to do of a positive nature.
我们根本不会想要你们浪费自己的能量或者时间在无畏的行为上,因为这么多事情需要带着【正面的本质】去实现。
Gene said screening would be pointless because there was no place to send the rejects.
吉恩说筛选是没有意义的,因为没有地方安置那些遭到拒绝的人。
MR. NORTON said the experience taught him how social networking could be "productive, not just pointless chatter. "
诺顿说这次经历使他懂得社会网络可以具有“创造性而并非只是无意义的闲聊”。
The plan seems to be to start a pointless peace process, in the hope of averting a meaningless UN declaration.
他们的计划似乎是要开启一个毫无意义的和平进程,以期避免一份毫无意义的联合国声明。
While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.
尽管创作有时看上去有点让人摸不着头脑,甚至毫无意义,但创意通常都是有意义的。
It is pointless getting obsessed with China and trying to compete with it.
迷恋中国和试图与之比较没有意义,这会让我们像巴基斯坦。
This is one of those completely pointless tricks that has no useful application whatsoever, but it's still fun to figure out how to do.
这是一个完全没有任何意义的伎俩,没有有用的应用程序,但是发现如何实现仍旧是很有趣的。
But it was all really a bit pointless and I couldn't be bothered.
可是,这一切实际上并没有多大用处,而且我也懒得去说。
It is pointless to continue with it unless you intend that look to be the prevailing surface appearance for the remainder of the painting.
没有必要在继续粗略线条的工作了,除非你打算要粗略线条外观就是你成品的风格。
Nobody's heart ever beat faster because their eyes met across a crowded room and thought: "I could spend a pointless few years with him. "
没有人因为眼睛扫过一个拥挤的房间而永远心跳加速并且想:“我能和他毫不目的地过上几年。”
They were welcome; but unless he shows a greater readiness to negotiate in good faith, his belated move will turn out to be pointless.
纳坦雅胡说的话相当合乎时宜,可是,除非他自己准备好展现出真心诚意的谈判,否则他这些迟来的举措最后仍会失去意义。
The former was a pointless irritant to the Russians who never believed the US story that it was a response to a threat from Iran.
第一个是对俄罗斯毫无意义的刺激,因为俄罗斯从不相信美国的说法,即此举是对伊朗威胁的回应。
This was always dull, but is now pointless too, as the votes have all been cast by proxy ahead of time.
投票这种事情从来都乏味透顶,而如今还变得毫无意义,因为股东们事前都已委托代理人投票了。