Money has been invested in the scheme to little purpose.
资金已投入那计画中却几无成效。
We spoke to little purpose. His mind was clearly made up already.
我们说的话不起作用，他显然早已下定决心了。
We spoke to little purpose. Her mind was clearly made up already.
我们说话没有什么作用。她显然已经拿定了主意。
Abroad, America has spent vast amounts of blood and treasure, to little purpose.
在国外，美国漫无目的地花费了巨大的血汗和财富。
Radio4had a lot of decent actors breathing excitedly and chanting Pharaonic hymns at very opportunity and to little purpose.
无线电四台有许多像样的演员利用一切机会兴奋地低吟和歌唱法老赞歌，但效果不大。
To be seen crying sadly, the little boy raised his head and had the tears falling down on purpose.
为了让别人看见他哭得很伤心，小男孩抬起了头故意让眼泪掉下来。
Knoppix can also be viewed as a "least common denominator" : its purpose is to get the computer running with as little delay or human assistance as possible.
也可以将Knoppix看成是“最小公分母”：它的目的是为了让计算机在尽可能少的延迟或人员辅助的情况下运行。
To admit only students with little or no work experience, as theprofessions normally do, would be to misunderstand the nature and purpose ofthe learning experience.
MBA课程给予他们机会，分享工作经验，把经验概念化，并且加深理解；加强与他人合作的技巧；以及打开新的就业机会。像专业通常所做的那样，仅仅吸纳没有经验或只有零星见识的学员，只会偏离学习经验的本质与目的，走向歧途。
You are there for a purpose, and most interviewers want to keep that boundary. If you don't maintain a little distance, they might take it the wrong way.
“你去那里是有目的的，多数面试官希望保持一个界限，如果你不去维持这样一个距离，他们可能会感觉很不舒服”。
You are there for a purpose, and most interviewers want to keep that boundary. If you don’t maintain a little distance, they might take it the wrong way.
“你去那里是有目的的，多数面试官希望保持一个界限，如果你不去维持这样一个距离，他们可能会感觉很不舒服”。
By itself, a pipe has little use; its purpose is to connect a producer to a consumer.
管道本身没什么用；它的作用是连接数据生成者和数据消费者。
That means the easy way of devoting more resources to the frontline in Afghanistan - scrapping the big-ticket items that serve little real purpose - is closed off.
这就意味着，向阿富汗前线提供更多资源的简单办法就是取消这些实际意义不大的大牌项目。
It includes some features of a general-purpose expression language and is designed to be a little language that can be used for application-neutral processing within XML systems.
它具备通用表达式语言的若干特性，旨在提供一种轻量型语言，可用于XML系统内与应用程序无关的处理。
The disconnect occurs however, when your “practical career” is padding your bank account with money which means little to you – and you wish you were out living your true purpose instead.
但当现实中打入你银行账户的工资对你来说已经并无多大意义的时候，你便会不满，并开始希望能够活出真正的追求。
Or to bring it a little bit closer to home, does it mean that the purpose of the prehensile thumb is for grasping?
或者，更详细地说，它是不是意味着,能握住东西的拇指就是为了抓东西而存在的？
You can get little clamps for this purpose from your local hardware store and they'll help blend your cables in with the room, not to mention cutting back on you tripping yourself up.
你只要到就近的五金店去买一些夹子，他们会帮你把房间里的导线混合起来，减少绊倒你自己机会。
The first two mount options turn off atime updates, which are very rarely needed and serve little purpose other than to degrade filesystem performance.
前面的两个mount选项关闭atime更新，几乎不需要 atime 更新，并且它除了降低文件系统性能之外几乎不起任何作用。
The little pests are generally believed to have no broader purpose than to survive and spread disease.
人们认为蚊虫这种小害虫除了生存和传播疾病之外，对生态环境没有其它的影响。
It makes our suffering a little more bearable because it is a suffering with a purpose: it gives life to others.
它使我们能够忍受困难多一点，因为这是有目的的苦难：就是它给别人生命。
At the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), educated Chinese hid themselves away behind their red-walled mansions, devoting themselves to family with little sense of a larger purpose in their lives.
在清朝末年(1644- 1911)，受过教育的中国人将自己藏身于红墙府邸，专注于家庭而对生活中更大的目的毫不关心。
It serves little purpose to have continued public discussion of this issue.
继续公开讨药论这个问题是不会有什么益处的。
The other purpose for the mid drive is to step-up the gearing - with the aerodynamic fairing body on, the bike can go very fast with very little power.
其他目的的中期驱动器是逐步的调整-与气动整流罩机构，自行车可以非常快很少权力。
Thee purpose of the cartoonist is to show us that instead of being outdated and of little value in a rapidly modernizing world, cultural blending should be encouraged and maintained.
画家的目的是告诉我们文化融合并未过时或失去价值，相反还应鼓励和保持。
Now, the purpose of that little rhyme was to help me to remember the number of days in the different months.
如今，这个小韵文帮助我记得不同月份各有几天。
Purpose is, that did not have a chance to visit the big wild goose pagoda Xi 'an little friend, also can understand some of the big wild goose pagoda.
目的是，使没有机会来西安参观大雁塔的小朋友，也能了解一些大雁塔的情况。
The purpose is to let the hair clean, good grooming, hair long, a little attention, it is easy to chaos, the chaos is not comfortable, but only so that it is the baptism of the spirit.
目的就是让头发干净、好梳理，头发长，稍微不注意就容易乱，乱了就不舒服，而唯一使它精神的就是洗礼。
The purpose is to let the hair clean, good grooming, hair long, a little attention, it is easy to chaos, the chaos is not comfortable, but only so that it is the baptism of the spirit.
目的就是让头发干净、好梳理，头发长，稍微不注意就容易乱，乱了就不舒服，而唯一使它精神的就是洗礼。
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