This could make the rest of the elderly rather nervous; are we really that useless, and do we inevitably end up being what my mother always called a "bloody nuisance"?

这样可能会使其余的老年人战战兢兢：我们真的没用吗？ 我们真的就无可避免地结束掉这个被我母亲称为讨厌鬼的生命？

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Yet it is the absurd contradiction itself, that individual who wants to achieve everything and live everything, that useless attempt, that ineffectual persistence.

然而，正是这荒谬矛盾本身，正是那个想达成所有一切，历经所有一切的个体，那个徒劳的尝试，也正是那毫无意义的坚持。

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But I put it to you that they're useless.

但我要告诉你，他们没用。

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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。

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Having that many outfielders who are that useless is a problem in its own right, but also a symptom of something else, like an inability to develop or acquire certain kinds of talent.

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Left to savor are virtuoso touches, like a flock of birds that becomes useless paper, a train that glides along the surface of a lake, and one of the great villains of all time, Yubaba, who looks like a bobble-headed grandmother on speed.

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An expense of resources that is useless or harmful is worse than the alternative, which is to do nothing, however dreadful that might be.

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