And,in one language in Botswana, there are three main kinds of plants and animals: edible "eat-things", harmful "bite-things" and "useless things."

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It's not a cyclical and useless definition.

这不是一个循环式的,没有意义的定义

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

And then remember how you solve this 'cause otherwise completely useless exercise.

记住我是怎么解决这个问题的，否则就是一次,无意义的演练了，对吧。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I think for the moment it should be plain to you that this is a good way of understanding what the difference between a useful preconception and a useless preconception brought to bear on an interpretative act might consist in.

我想大家现在都能够,从这个例子中明白,解读中有益先见,和无益先见,之间的区别了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Milton explains that the Licensing Order of 1643 is ineffective, it's useless because, and I'm quoting here, " order avails nothing to the suppressing of scandalous, seditious, and libellous books, which were mainly intended to be suppressed."

弥尔顿解释说《出版管制法》毫无作用，一无是处，我引用他的话说原因“,因为这个管制法对控制诽谤性的，有煽动性的，中伤他人的需要被控制的书籍毫无用处“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Well, simply with the * notation at least on the way in when you declare the function called swap, you simply say this is not going to take an int and another int because that's useless.

好的，简单说，当你声明一个函数调用swap函数时,使用*符号，你可以简单说，这不能使用一个int数和另外一个int数,因为那是无效的。

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