After losing all his money in useless and bad inventions the family had to move into a peasant's cottage, where the daughters did their own cooking, sewing and cleaning.

他发明了一些无用且糟糕的东西，结果失去了所有的财产，贵族一家只能搬到一个农舍里，女儿们只能亲手做饭、缝纫、打扫。

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Without the wind, the grass does not move. Without software, hardware is useless.

风不动则草不动，没有软件，硬件只是一堆发热的电子器件。

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Mr. Trottier and Mornant tried again to make the submarine move, but it was useless.

特罗·蒂埃先生和摩赫南再次试图让潜艇移动，但是没有用。

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Working on postparade cleanups in warm weather, I quickly learned that it was useless to ask lingering bystanders to move back a little from the barricades.

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The move effectively made links to FileSonic-hosted files useless and precipitated a sharp drop in the number of people using the site.

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But Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast called the IAEA vote "a theatrical move aimed at pressuring Iran" that would be "useless", state news agency Irna reported.

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