Money has been invested in the scheme to little purpose.

资金已投入那计画中却几无成效。

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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。

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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。

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Now, the purpose of this exercise is to give you a little bit of practice in figuring out what these quantities are.

就有这样的结论,这个练习的作用时让你们理解,这些物理量是什么。

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I want to end this premise idea by talking a little bit about a person for whom, one of the chief purpose in life was to spread happiness-- Mahatma Gandhi. This is a story about him.

我想以介绍一位,一生致力于，传播快乐的人来结论这个前提-,圣雄甘地，这是关于他的一个故事。

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The first half was a disjointed affair, characterised by Stoke defending in numbers, West Ham piling forward to little clear purpose and over-officious refereeing.

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The building seems to have relatively little purpose other than as a gallery for the works of some of Japan's leading artists.

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And that meant the data it had the capacity to transmit had little meaning and purpose.

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