| 词汇 | uselessness |
| 释义 | uselessness noun[ U ] uk /ˈjuːs.ləs.nəs/ us /ˈjuːs.ləs.nəs/ the fact of being of no use, or of not working or achieving what is needed: 无用;无法工作 They complained bitterly about the uselessness of their training.他们强烈抱怨训练毫无用处。 She knew the complete uselessness of arguing with him any longer.她知道再跟他争吵是完全没有用的。 mainlyUKinformal the quality of not being at all good at doing something: 无用;无能 He is known as Mr Wrong for the uselessness of his predictions.他被称为错误先生，因为他的预测毫无用处。 She tells bad jokes about the uselessness of men.她爱讲关于男人无用的粗俗笑话。 See useless He warns about the uselessness of many university degrees. I realized the uselessness of the situation. He has deserved our contempt for his profound stupidity, and his utter uselessness at all the tasks. 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 You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Inability and awkwardness Examples of uselessnessuselessness The discrepancy between effort and result, the uselessness and non-utilitarian character of the machine, showed that it was entirely born out of a playful spirit. The airconditioning control system is able to provide high-level information about its functionality (such as the uselessness of cooling an empty room). One cannot use the evidence from market experiments to validate the importance of script enaction and, consequentially, the uselessness of decontextualised experiments. The common psychological disabilities that most of the older persons experience are : feeling of powerlessness, feeling of inferiority, depression, uselessness, isolation and reduced competence. The activation trend also seems to have led to increasing feelings of social isolation and uselessness among unemployed and disabled people. The moral uselessness of natural research, however, is a direct consequence of this. The male face shows the social fiction that, with a few exceptions, men can stay physically young despite their age, belying the notion of uselessness or powerless disability. On the basis of the uselessness of redundant arguments, we also propose an erasure procedure which may avoid wasteful computations while still preserving the semantics (under ascertained conditions). Interestingly, in encouraging a language that polarized particular and general interests, utility and uselessness, the monarchy helped to intensify local civic humanistic sensibilities while abolishing politically autonomous republics. The controver sy between the two opinions regarding the physics of nonresonant electron diffusion illustrates rather well the uselessness of the ensemble method for plasma kinetic studies. Today it is proving its complete uselessness, since it is the states that are acting and reacting. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I do not think he was quite right in his conclusion regarding the uselessness of putting a tax on mineral waters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She said that she was concerned about old people becoming used to the uselessness and loneliness of old age. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is more the spirit of the policy and the uselessness of that effort which appeals to us. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let me also call attention to another illustration of the uselessness and the futility of these discussions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of uselessness 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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