He was good for nothing now except navvy work.

他除了苦力外，什么也干不好了。

youdao

Yes, but such tales and stories are good for nothing.

是的，但是这样的故事是毫无用处的。

youdao

Everybody has his own merits and demerits. One should never think that he is perfect while others are all good for nothing.

每个人都有自己的优点和缺点，不要把别人都看成百无一是，把自己看成十全十美。

《新英汉大辞典》

Nothing! Nothing but the bones of a lazy,dishonest, good-for-nothing fortune-seeker.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

If harmony really is invisible, and harmony really can be destroyed, that invisible things can be destroyed, even the soul is nothing like you know, that's not a good analogy for thinking of the physicalist position, have you? So what?

如果和声真的无形，而和声真的可以毁灭，那么无形的东西可以毁灭，即使灵魂不同于和声,如果从物理学家的观点来看,这不是个好的类比，那又如何？

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So the woman, I have immediately forgotten the name of, in the red shirt, whose name was Courtney, so Courtney also gave a reason for choosing Alpha, and it was a perfectly good reason for choosing Alpha, nothing wrong with it, but notice that this reason's a stronger reason.

我忘记刚才那位女士的名字了,穿红色衬衫的那位,她叫考特尼,对,考特尼也说了她为什么选α,她也有不错的理由来选α,这本身没错,但是呢,这个理由显得更充分

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If a tree falls in a forest and no one laughs, then you've killed a perfectly good tree for nothing.

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He showed a volatile ambivalence toward his oldest son, whom he dubbed Good-for-nothing.

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Shareholders need to draw the proper lesson from these episodes: the condition for good returns is nothing less than their eternal vigilance.

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