He says that by making them into a sculpture, he has made useless objects useful again.

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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 think that what it would lead to would be useless votes.

我认为强制投票会产生许多无用的选票。

对于义务投票制 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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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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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So this thing here that starts with slash temp, that's pretty useless information.

错误信息从/tmp开始，其实这是无用信息。

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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。

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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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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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