| 词汇 | uselessly |
| 释义 | uselessly adverb uk /ˈjuːs.ləs.li/ us /ˈjuːs.ləs.li/ in a way that is of no use, or that is not working or achieving what is needed: 无用地;无法工作地 His injured arm hung uselessly at his side.受伤的手臂无力地垂在他身侧。 I didn't want to spend the afternoon arguing uselessly.我不想把下午的时间浪费在无谓的争论上。 See useless He tugged uselessly at the ropes, but could not free himself. His arms dropped uselessly to his sides. The money is lying around uselessly and there are people who need it urgently. Useless and futile adrift aimless aimlessly aimlessness airy-fairy fruitless fruitlessly fruitlessness futile futilely negate negation no goodidiom non-viable nugatory unpractical unrealistic unrealistically unseriousness until you are blue in the faceidiom Examples of uselesslyuselessly Men may die horribly, randomly, and uselessly, but at least they can say that they behaved well. The pull of the opposing considerations (learners clearly do\\clearly don't generalize) is so strong that there's a danger of just seesawing uselessly between them. Such a large dictionary is probably overkill, and in fact, it may even be the case that it uselessly slows down processing, by proposing extremely rare (although probably valid) words. In contrast, many plans which have never been put into practice have uselessly changed the nature of an area of which they will never be a part. When it gets at the facts, the mischief has probably been done, and it may be found that the money has been uselessly thrown away. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not better that these be made available for research purposes, with parental permission, rather than they be uselessly destroyed? From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English If men think they are going to be uselessly and uneconomicallly employed they will regard it as one of the greatest deterrents. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It paints a picture of muddled thinking, of waste, and of valuable effort uselessly employed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The amount of money we have spent uselessly is something fabulous. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The staff who are now uselessly employed on maintaining the cards and records could then be employed productively. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are thoughtlessly, wastefully and uselessly spending money which would be better spent in raising the standard of the technical education of our people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not making use of this very important national asset but are merely letting it grow and accumulate uselessly in our forests. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was not left uselessly on our hands. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You may spend a great deal of money uselessly in that way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The figure represents 78 good lives that were uselessly destroyed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of uselessly 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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