| 词汇 | example_english_meaningless |
| 释义 | Examples of meaninglessThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. I hated its commonplace chords, its oily wellsoundingness, its meaningless tonelines. Respondents in the experiment frequently commented on whether the text they read was meaningful or meaningless. In reality, this became a meaningless distinction when confronted with the scale of the problem. However, when software systems and components live and interact in an open world, the concept of flow of control becomes meaningless. Anything discounted at a rate of 3-6 per cent becomes meaningless after 50-100 years. The object is to make a work which demystifies reality, such that a purely aesthetic appreciation becomes meaningless. The carnival erased social conventions by rendering them meaningless, and this 'decontextualization' relieved individuals from responsibility for their actions. Thus, the humorist concludes, it is meaningless to attempt explanations. Cruel scams were played out on desperate families, with meaningless but costly information peddled to them on the whereabouts of the missing. Disruption of these connections leads to despair, perception of life as meaningless, and the self as powerless. Failing to see that what is sublime cannot be said, he attempts to capture it in meaningless propositions. Resurrection would be meaningless there, serving only to complicate the process of releasement. Moreover, some meaningless differences in the representation as term/environment pairs are quotiented out in the net representation, which makes the approach even simpler. They have the limitation that one must write down explicit functional forms to test; failure to include the true form may lead to meaningless results. Even though most of the countries referred to here incorporate accountability into their security governance, such accountability is meaningless. Four main serious arguments are identified: invented sentences are 'meaningless'; they are not discourse; they are not 'real': and they are 'bad' for learners. Justification is simplest for the impartial rule theorist, for she believes principles are more or less meaningless anyway. Other samples from the studied sequences mostly yielded geologically meaningless dates. The synthetic haplotype can serve as a baseline haplotype in our logistic regression model since the heterogeneous group is biologically meaningless. Given high amounts of intra-locus recombination, even a gene tree becomes an almost meaningless concept. Unless the initial constraint propagation phase provides useful finite bounds, interval estimates are frequently meaningless since calculations with unbounded intervals rarely generate tight enclosures. The pariahs had been meaningless things to him. Such acceptance is meaningless to refugees unless it is coupled with return. In addition, any public debate of this kind was meaningless without relocating the meaning of community, self, and social interest within a new framework. In fact, the large number of associated risk factors may make many models including all such risk factors difficult to interpret, if not altogether meaningless. With respect to those notions, which moder n mathematics connects with the concept of an ir regular sequence,61 the existence of limits becomes meaningless. Their talk is meaningless if the unit of pleasure itself is the sole basic value. Down in the sewers, where visible markers of wealth and status are non-existent, class distinctions become meaningless. Such finite-state grammars consist of meaningless letter patterns ordered by means of an abstract algorithm. His interlocutor protests that without the faith that our ideals are destined to be realized "our labours are meaningless, our efforts absurd". Convergence results based on damping out specific eigenvalues (the unwanted set) in the presence of such perturbations are numerically meaningless. If these are the only situations where this mechanism is to be used, then it becomes virtually meaningless, as exact equal claims are very rare. If government had no obligation to satisfy basic health needs, including mental health, then other rights would become meaningless for a portion of the population. By this omission, transplant studies reify distinct racial differences and thus present meaningless results. In artificial, meaningless languages, there is no obvious reason to expect a different type of chunking. To do this effectively, more consultation with local communities is required, but the participants unanimously agreed that existing consultation arrangements were meaningless rhetoric. If anything could not be assessed, the interpretation is put aside as meaningless and the next one, if any, is examined. To contemplate architecture visually, from a touristic viewpoint, is essentially meaningless. Children were told to read some silly, meaningless words. Apart from our interpretations, they would be meaningless spots. The superficial implication of a precipitous drop in stillbirth rate at higher age is meaningless. The distinction between underlying and derived phrase structure is essentially meaningless from this perspective. Policy, labour or otherwise, was meaningless if the state could not implement it. Regardless of our interest in magnetic fields, spin effects are meaningless. Here, however, the symbolic changes accompanying police reform (which were bitterly contested by unionists) are dismissed as superficial and meaningless. In existence certain questions are meaningful and others are meaningless. Without some essential characteristic, ' the family of religion becomes so large as to be practically meaningless and analytically useless ' (73). The latter are labelled as 'predicted sincere votes', but they are totally meaningless because they are predictions under logically impossible conditions. The almost meaningless inclusiveness of these terms on their own is clearly intentionally modified by the term 'key'. Here and elsewhere, the phrase 'social construction' is used so frequently as to become rather meaningless. I contend that litigant participation in adjudication is meaningless without concomitant responsiveness by the ultimate decision-maker, the judge. The question about the meaning of life is not meaningless. A man's relations to his neighbors become meaningless unless there is some higher power above them both. Equus torments him, but it is also the sole element of transcendence in his otherwise meaningless existence. In practice, this ownership was meaningless, because tenants refused to pay rent or even allow landowners to enter the "chosen" village. While the one prevented 'free inquiry', the other afforded only 'meaningless anguish' or 'vulgar amusement' as 'convenient safety valves for human anxiety'. Otherwise, the creation of message pairs by applying both substitutions to the same formula gives meaningless results. Additionally, a set of constraints is applied to filter out meaningless patterns. In the following refrain, for example, the adverbs of place would be quite indeterminate and meaningless without complementary gestures to clarify the here and there. In short, the outcome of these fragmentary analyses of the paradigm are approaches to apposition which, because they are too comprehensive, become virtually meaningless. Language, they tell us, and particularly literary language, doesn't describe the world, but only the meaningless machinery of language itself. To promote such views in the late twentieth century is to play an intellectually meaningless card. If that was the case, then comprehensiveness was meaningless and could be picked apart on a case by case basis. As a consequence, the distinction between "nature" and "culture" also becomes increasingly meaningless. Expressions like ' round square ' and ' highest even integer ' express concepts that are necessarily uninstantiated, yet the expressions themselves are clearly not meaningless. The following example presents another case of a program which is meaningless under stable model semantics but has minimal founded models. Any loose items will be branded as meaningless, merely accidental, and will have to be left out of the ensuing structure. At its worst, the method involved mindless repetition and meaningless drills, with unmotivated learners interacting with teaching machines using far from authentic materials. Phonologically, it is internally simple, but long ; morphologically\\semantically, it is primitive (virtually meaningless). Whilst it is possible with a computer to extract a single sound sample, it is meaningless to the human ear. Such uniform effects would cause the model convergence to fail, and give rise to meaningless parameter estimates. The physical smoothness is nevertheless to be borne in mind if we are to avoid falling into meaningless paradoxes. I would repeat my name over and over again in my thoughts, but my name would seem foreign and meaningless to me. Differences among the results of the three runs were very small and meaningless. Such effects have been neglected since they are meaningless as far as the physical plume is concerned. In other words, a life that is objectively meaningless can perfectly well be subjectively meaningful. Therefore, if it is in fact a meaningless idea, we have a duty to expose it as such. Understanding an organism as an aggregate (or as a mere mereological sum of parts) would make the distinction between internal and external causes meaningless. The very question of selfhood is rendered meaningless altogether. If nothing is excluded, if the term is not deployed differentially, is it not just meaningless? Such omnipresence can, paradoxically, lead music to be ignored as simply a part + and a relatively meaningless part + of the urban milieu. Despite those aspects, next of kin perceived that something meaningful had been done, that is, the best possible meaning-contr ibuting aspects under meaningless c ircumstances. The effect is a depressing commentary on their isolated lives and their misguided aspirations and meaningless goals in this new social order. Since 93\\0 is meaningless if taken as a mathematical expression, this ' infinity ' cannot be interpreted as being aleph-zero or any other number. The reader is no more spared the meaningless horror than are the poem's speakers themselves. However, there are other more serious dilemmas that make morality meaningless for the cynic. Rees maintains that effectiveness is meaningless without usefulness, and this implies, among other things, political constraints. Not only are the ratios meaningless, but so are the intensity estimates. Without such a purpose, it is assumed, history must be meaningless. The author's treatment of the reciprocity of building and city is uneven, relying too often on overly popular and essentially meaningless explanations like 'architectural power'. Consequently, any inferences as to multifractality are nearly meaningless here without a relevant theoretical basis. The children who participated in the timbre discrimination task did not view it as some meaningless activity that was completely irrelevant to their experience. Furthermore, we are sympathetic to their argument that it may be impossible or meaningless to study perception only in the absence of movement. However, it seems meaningless to do so and very hard to justify, as they are characteristic differences between the two systems. The mass of its elevation in a flat triangle is meaningless in comparison with the columns' determination to hold up this triangle. In this, as well as other, paradigms it is virtually meaningless to ask whether people are accurate or not. Accuracy on noun forms in isolation is meaningless. What they couldn't do was perform meaningless calculations and relate them to situations which were equally meaningless to them. In such cases - and in many others - classification is either impossible or meaningless. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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