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单词 uselessness
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uselessness
noun[U]
uk
/ˈjuːs.ləs.nəs/us
/ˈjuːs.ləs.nəs/
thefactof being of no use, or of notworkingorachievingwhat isneeded:
无用；无法工作
Theycomplainedbitterlyabout the uselessness oftheirtraining.他们强烈抱怨训练毫无用处。
Sheknewthecompleteuselessness ofarguingwith him anylonger.她知道再跟他争吵是完全没有用的。
mainlyUKinformal
thequalityof not being at all good at doing something:
无用；无能
He isknownas Mr Wrong for the uselessness of hispredictions.他被称为错误先生，因为他的预测毫无用处。
Shetellsbadjokesabout the uselessness of men.她爱讲关于男人无用的粗俗笑话。
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useless
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  • Hewarnsabout the uselessness of manyuniversitydegrees.
  • Irealizedthe uselessness of thesituation.
  • He hasdeservedourcontemptfor hisprofoundstupidity, and hisutteruselessness at all thetasks.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Useless and futile
  • a mug's gameidiom
  • adrift
  • aimless
  • aimlessly
  • aimlessness
  • airy-fairy
  • frivolous
  • frivolousness
  • fruitless
  • fruitlessly
  • fruitlessness
  • moon around
  • motiveless
  • negate
  • negation
  • unfavourably
  • unfruitful
  • unrealistic
  • unrealistically
  • untilyou areblue in the faceidiom
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(Definition ofuselessnessfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofuselessness

uselessness
The discrepancy between effort and result, theuselessnessand non-utilitarian character of the machine, showed that it was entirely born out of a playful spirit.
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The airconditioning control system is able to provide high-level information about its functionality (such as theuselessnessof cooling an empty room).
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One cannot use the evidence from market experiments to validate the importance of script enaction and, consequentially, theuselessnessof decontextualised experiments.
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The common psychological disabilities that most of the older persons experience are : feeling of powerlessness, feeling of inferiority, depression,uselessness, isolation and reduced competence.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The activation trend also seems to have led to increasing feelings of social isolation anduselessnessamong unemployed and disabled people.
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The moraluselessnessof natural research, however, is a direct consequence of this.
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The male face shows the social fiction that, with a few exceptions, men can stay physically young despite their age, belying the notion ofuselessnessor powerless disability.
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On the basis of theuselessnessof redundant arguments, we also propose an erasure procedure which may avoid wasteful computations while still preserving the semantics (under ascertained conditions).
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Interestingly, in encouraging a language that polarized particular and general interests, utility anduselessness, the monarchy helped to intensify local civic humanistic sensibilities while abolishing politically autonomous republics.
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The controver sy between the two opinions regarding the physics of nonresonant electron diffusion illustrates rather well theuselessnessof the ensemble method for plasma kinetic studies.
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Today it is proving its completeuselessness, since it is the states that are acting and reacting.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
I do not think he was quite right in his conclusion regarding theuselessnessof putting a tax on mineral waters.
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She said that she was concerned about old people becoming used to theuselessnessand loneliness of old age.
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It is more the spirit of the policy and theuselessnessof that effort which appeals to us.
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Let me also call attention to another illustration of theuselessnessand the futility of these discussions.
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