pointlessly

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BNC.38812 / COCA.33556

英英释义

adv

• in a pointless manner
  1. he spent his life in pointlessly tiresome drudgery

双语例句

• I tried, rather pointlessly, to change her mind.
  我试了，根本没用，不可能改变她的主意。
• Even if I was inclined to hire a cleaner to wash pointlessly dirty dishes, the apparent job-creation is illusory.
  即便我有意雇用一个清洁工，来清洗那些脏得毫无意义的盘子，表面上创造的就业也是一个假象。
• It is tempting to mock this as a pointlessly circular argument: more cannon fodder means more cannons, which means more need for cannon fodder.
  人们禁不住会嘲笑这种毫无意义的循环论证：炮弹更多就意味着大炮更多，进而意味着对炮弹的需求也就更高。
• Among the broken fragments of the last five minutes at table I remember the candles being lit again, pointlessly, and I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at every one, and yet to avoid all eyes.
  在餐桌上最后五分钟残存的印象中，我记得蜡烛又无缘无故地点着了，同时我意识到自己很想正眼看看大家，然而却又想避开大家的目光。
• But this is no abstruse and pointlessly exasperated research: design is dictated by contemporary needs.
  但是这并不玄奥白白气愤研究：设计是由当代的需要。
• He spent his life in pointlessly tiresome drudgery.
  他的一生都在做毫无意义的烦人的苦差事。
• Using old-fashioned good storytelling," Red Cliff "restores credibility to the genre of Chinese historical epics that have often been tainted by pointlessly large-scaled and action-packed productions.
  使用传统的故事陈述方法，“赤壁”为那些规模庞大，动作火爆却常常无趣的中国大片恢复了公信力。
• Otherwise you simply free up time at work that you will then fritter away pointlessly.
  否则，你就干脆处理工作上的事情，然后你在上班时就可以漫无目的地消磨。
• She looked at me and laughed pointlessly.
  她看看我，忽然莫名其妙地笑了起来。
• Refusing to carry out orders would not only be pointlessly quixotic, it would be downright stupid.
  拒绝服从命令不仅是毫无意义的唐吉诃德主义，而且愚蠢之极。