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

VOA: special.2009.12.02

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Pyongyang declared the six-nation process "useless" earlier this year, in its latest boycott of the talks.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

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？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But the problem is if you use the word "Language" impossibly, incredibly broadly, then from a scientific point of view it becomes useless to ask interesting questions about it.

但问题是,如果你无限宽泛地使用"语言"一词,那么从科学的角度来看,探究语言就变得毫无意义了

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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“

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In addition Aristotle tells us such a person will possess beautiful but useless things suggesting the possession not only of wealth but of a kind of cultivated aesthetic sense.

此外，亚里士多德告诉我们,这类的人还将会拥有一些美丽,但无用的东西,不只拥有财富,还有一种经教化的美感。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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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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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