This definition, though accurate, is equally as pedantic and useless as the first, from a practical point of view.
从实用角度看，这个定义尽管精确，但它和第一种描述一样，都是纸上谈兵、毫不实用。
From the point of view of making people like you, or even getting willing cooperation, we call this a Really Useless Attitude.
从想让人们喜欢你的观点或得到愉快的合作来看，这真的是一个非常糟糕的态度。
He was also afraid he'd be useless as a coach, caving under the pressure and forgetting all we'd learned in our childbirth class.
他还担心自己无法完成指导的任务，在压力作用下忘记我们在分娩课上学过的一切。
Of course, Foursquare would be rendered virtually useless as a tool if a user did this so there is typically always some form of data exposure occurring when someone USES Foursquare.
当然，如果用户这样做了，那实际上Foursquare作为工具就变得毫无用处，所以说只要用户在使用Fours quare，一般情况下就会有不同类型的数据泄露发生。
Astronauts will make a final attempt today to rescue a communications satellite from its useless orbit.
宇航员们今天将做最后一次尝试，把一颗通讯卫星从它无用的轨道上拯救出来。
Today almost everyone has a smart phone, booths are out of date and seem to be useless.
今天，几乎每个人都有一个智能电话，电话亭已经过时了，似乎是无用的。
If you just scramble a sentence, it's pretty useless because the recipients are never going to be able to reverse the process.
如果你只是加密一个句子，这是毫无用处的，因为收件人没法将这个句子反加密出来。
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information," quipped Oscar Wilde in 1894.
1894年，奥斯卡·王尔德嘲笑说：“如今，几乎没有无用的信息，这是非常可悲的事情。”
"A white elephant" means something that is useless, although it may cost a lot of money.
“白象”指的是无用却很昂贵的东西。
After a few months, Jeff began to understand it was useless to be angry.
几个月后，杰夫开始明白，生气是没有用的。
All my knowledge is useless when it comes to trying to blow bubbles from a loop filled with soapy water.
当试图从蘸满肥皂水的环中吹泡泡时，我所有的知识都是无用的。
The second drawer began to fill and as it did I wondered whether there were bigger discoveries out there, not just species, but life that depends on things thought to be useless, life even without DNA. I started a third drawer for these big discoveries.
第二个抽屉开始被填满。此时我在想外头是否还有更大的发现，不只是物种，还有依赖于人们认为无用的东西的生命以及甚至没有 DNA 的生命。我为这些重大发现设立了第三个抽屉。
Sometimes useless features stick around in a species simply because they're not doing much harm.
有时人们不会去改掉一些没有用的特点，只因为它们并没有什么坏处。
But no matter how good your tools are, they're useless without a good plan that defines how to get where you want to go.
但不论您的工具有多好，没有一个好的计划来定义如何达成您的目标，这些工具还是毫无用处的。
The semiconscious brain is not a useless sack of neural goo, they have shown, and not all damaged brains are the same.
他们指明半昏迷的大脑装的并不是一大袋无用且混乱的神经黏性物，并非所有的损坏的大脑都一样。
A 300-line method is useless from a design or reuse standpoint because you can't focus on the important constituent parts.
从设计或重用的角度来看，长达300行的方法是没用的，因为无法把注意力集中在重要的部分上。
Semantic: The document must contain enough DOAP terms for it to make sense; for instance, a DOAP file would be pretty useless without a name, description, and homepage property.
语义：要使文档有意义，文档必须包含足够的doap术语。例如，一个DOAP文件如果没有名称、描述和主页属性，那么根本没用。
Abandon perfectionism. It is a useless pursuit with no end. It creates stress and unhappiness. Learn to find the balance point between good enough and peaceful living.
放弃对于完美的追求，这种无用的追求永无止境，它只能带给你压力与痛苦。尝试在出色和平和的生活间寻找一个平衡点。
Why do Americans spend such huge amounts of time, money, water, fertiliser and fuel on growing a useless smooth expanse of grass?
为什么美国人要把如此大量的时间、金钱、水、化肥和燃料花在一大片平整却毫无用处的草地上呢？
As described earlier, the data cleansing pattern can turn inconsistent (and hence, useless) data into a valuable strategic asset.
正如前面所述，数据清理模式可能会将不一致的数据(因此会没有用处)返回到宝贵的策略资产。
A TypeInitializationException can be a fatal error in an application since it renders a type useless.
TypeInitializationException在应用程序中可能是一个致命错误，因为它会生成类型无用。
Yin-Yang+: A seemingly useless plugin, but fun nonetheless.
Yin-Yang+：一个表面看起来没有用的插件，但是非常有趣。
'at first I resolved not to disturb you with such a useless piece of information,' said he. 'However, our impulses are too strong for our judgment sometimes.
“起初我决心不拿这种毫无用处的消息打扰你，”他说，“可是，我们的冲动有时候太强烈，控制不住我们的理智。”
This variation means that the processor busy rate now has a random denominator and a random numerator, which renders this value fairly useless in a production virtual world.
这种变化意味着现在处理器繁忙时间所占百分比的分子和分母都是随机的，因此这个值在生产虚拟环境中没有用处。
Therefore, the code in Listing 13 is useless from a transaction standpoint; although it appears that it USES transactions to maintain atomicity and consistency, in fact it does not.
因此，清单13中的代码从事务角度来说毫无用处；尽管看上去它使用事务来维护原子性和一致性，但事实上并没有。
While this is a step in the right direction, it's still a pretty useless message in terms of telling the user or a programmer working on the application what actually went wrong.
尽管这是朝正确方向前进的一步，但是要告诉从事应用程序开发的用户和程序员究竟发生了什么问题，这些消息仍然是没有太大用处的。
However, something not very well documented is almost useless unless you devote a great amount of time in exploring it completely.
然而，某些没有非常完善文档的工具几乎没法用，除非你愿意花大量的时间对其进行彻底的探索。
I was initially hostile to that campaign, since it seemed likely to foment jealousy - a fairly useless emotion.
起初我对这项活动充满敌意，因为它似乎会引起相当无用的嫉妒之心。
I was initially hostile to that campaign, since it seemed likely to foment jealousy - a fairly useless emotion.
起初我对这项活动充满敌意，因为它似乎会引起相当无用的嫉妒之心。
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