But many workers dismiss the federation as useless.

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Hobbes wrote, "I am at the point of believing that my labors will be " as useless as the commonwealth of Plato."

贺伯斯写到，“我在此要相信,我的努力将如同,柏拉图的国家一样不具实用“

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I am at the point of believing," he says, "that my labor will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato," he says in a moment of sort of uncharacteristic despair, "will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato."

我就快相信，自己所做的这一切都将是无用功,就像柏拉图所建立的理想国一样,他曾异常绝望地这样说，就像柏拉图的理想国一样毫无意义“

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All of Milton's labors in the cause of liberating England from the tyranny of monarchy had in some way - could be construed as having been useless.

弥尔顿为把英国从君主暴政解放出来,所做的努力在某种程度上,可以说是付之东流了。

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Now as an aside, I'll admit this is a completely useless program, much like the first couple of ones we did because why would you write a program just to solve this?

说点题外话，我承认这是一个完全无用的程序，跟我们之前写的两个程序一样,我们为什么需要写个程序来解决这个数学运算呢？

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It's just so vague as to be useless.

只是这些观点都太过模糊，没什么用。

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So it's almost as if functions really are useless because they have no ultimate effect.

所以几乎是函数是没起作用的,因为它们没有最终的效果。

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So when I said earlier that as soon as swap returns, all of the memory allocated for swap is now useless.

我前面指明的，一旦swap返回，所有为swap分配的内存都是无用的了。

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