The measures were decried as useless.

这些措施受到指责，说是不起作用。

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They gave up reading academic finance journals altogether as useless and well behind what they were doing.

他们完全不读金融方面的学术杂志，认为这些对他们所做的工作是毫无帮助。

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As useless as I knew it would be, as weak as my knees already were, panic took over and I bolted for the emergency door.

尽管我知道这根本没用，我的膝盖依然虚软着，恐惧还是控制了一切，我向紧急出口冲去。

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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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Most would probably describe it as useless web surfing and brain numbing tv watching.

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Thus figures from the CBO are as useless as ignoring the principles of supply and demand.

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They were as useless as the person who threw away your ad without looking at it.

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