本故事中,问到了一个无意义的问题。
你真的认为,因为因为不存在对这些问题的可设想的答案,所以它们是无意义的问题吗?
Magee: You think that, because there is no conceivable answer to these questions, they are meaningless questions?
与人交谈中言语减少,重复一些单调的语句,或满篇文字只反复说一个无意义的问题,如“人为什么要吃饭?”
Verbal conversation with people less monotonous repetition of the statement, or full text articles repeatedly said only a meaningless questions like "Why do people eat?"
不知怎么回事,很难得的是将这新的一年定位成兴奋,然后转变为小心翼翼,再变为警告,最后变成一堆关于时间自然性质的无意义的问题。
Somehow, it is harder to place the moment when the excitement of a new year turned to wariness and then to alarm and then to futile questions about the nature of time.
告诉你花花公子,去找一份真正的工作,或至少找一个真正的爱好,不要沉溺于那些精神毫无意义的问题,或者不要沉迷于你如何看待这个世界。
Tell you dude go and get a real job or at least get a real hobby do not indulge yourself into those mentally feeble questions or the way you looking at the world.
为什么你会问这些问题?告诉你花花公子,去找一份真正的工作,或至少找一个真正的爱好,不要沉溺于那些精神毫无意义的问题,或者不要沉迷于你如何看待这个世界。
Why you ask those questions? Tell you dude go and get a real job or at least get a real hobby do not indulge yourself into those mentally feeble questions or the way you looking at the world.
对这个问题的回答可能很多也很多样化,但几乎没有人会回答:“音乐对我来说毫无意义。”
Answers to this question would be many and diverse, yet almost no one would reply, "Music means nothing to me."
这些方法可以帮助你赢得每一场争论——不是毫无意义的击败对手,而是更好地了解使人们产生分歧的问题。
These tools can help you win every argument—not in the unhelpful sense of beating your opponents but in the better sense of learning about the issues that divide people.
当然,上面的代码是无意义的,但其结构很常见,因此,可以用它来说明这个问题。
The code above is, of course, nonsense, but its structure is common, so it shall serve to illustrate the point.
这意味着以诚恳的态度对待问题,超越那些给国家造成分歧而不是使国家团结的无意义辩论。
And that means being honest about the problem, and getting past the false debates that divide the country rather than bring it together.
在我的公司,用户体验无意义的方面被定义为:怎样帮助工作人员应对周末的数据中心问题。
At my company, a not insignificant part of the user experience is defined by how the support guys respond to weekend datacenter problems.
但仅仅因为一帮愚蠢的记者问了一些毫无意义惹人发怒的问题,我就精神错乱吗?
But am I going to flip out just because some dumb reporter asks a bunch of pointless and infuriating questions?
当然,缘起于无意义感的拖延问题,是很难找到简单的解决方案的。
Of course, there are not simple solutions to a problem of procrastination that arises from a sense of meaninglessness.
剥去磨损的标签,打破毫无意义的规则,找到新的工作方式和新的事情。如果你那么做的话,就能够把过去的问题抛到九霄云外。
Peel off worn out labels, break some pointless rules, find new ways to do things and new things to do, and while you're at it, leave a few of those problems from the past in the dust.
这些零碎工作本身就是问题,可以当作无意义的事情延迟去做。
The problem with these pesky little tasks is that each of them, alone, may be regarded as insignificant enough to be postponed.
如果不谈到这一问题,会谈就是毫无意义的?
Do you think that the talks will be meaningless if this issue is not mentioned?
欠债还钱,债务的问题在于你必须要偿还,英文贷款(credit)的单词来源于拉丁文credere,相信,并不是毫无意义的。
The problem with debt, though, is the need to repay it. Not for nothing does the word credit have its roots in the Latin word credere, to believe.
上个月,亚马逊的行政长官JeffBezos对这一问题这样回答:“给海明威的著作添加视频剪辑毫无意义。”
Last month, Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s chief executive, responded to this point this way: “You are not going to improve Hemingway by adding video snippets.”
几年后,他的小学老师认为他太懒惰,因为他会问一些在其他人看来毫无意义的抽象问题。
A few years later, his elementary school teachers considered him lazy because he would ask abstract questions that made no sense to others.
那么最后一个问题:关于英语词汇突破一百万大关的声明毫无意义吗?
如果你只对实现自己的特殊才能感兴趣,而置更大的人生问题和存在的最终目的于不顾,那么你的才能就毫无意义,毫无价值。
If you are only interested in fulfilling your particular capacity, disregarding the wider issues of life and the ultimate end of existence, then your talent is meaningless and worthless.
问题是这么多的重复使得这句话已经成了毫无意义和力度的咒语。
The problem is that through so much repetition the phrase becomes more of a mantra than something with real meaning and power.
当我在网上搜索这个问题的答案时,我得到了各种虚假的结果,例如男人玩的东西、女性隐私部位、脱发和其他一些无意义的东西。
When I did an Internet search on this question, I got all sort of bogus results. Guy stuff, ladybits, hair-loss and all other meaningless things.
当我在网上搜索这个问题的答案时,我得到了各种虚假的结果,例如男人玩的东西、女性隐私部位、脱发和其他一些无意义的东西。
When I did an Internet search on this question, I got all sort of bogus results. Guy stuff, ladybits, hair-loss and all other meaningless things.
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