Meaningless
['miːnɪŋlɪs] or ['minɪŋləs]
解释:
(adj.) having no meaning or direction or purpose; 'a meaningless endeavor'; 'a meaningless life'; 'a verbose but meaningless explanation' .
编辑:诺拉--From WordNet
例句:
- What Brangwen thought himself to be, how meaningless it was, confronted with the reality of him. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- It is difficult to believe nowadays that the order of nature indulged in any such meaningless comments. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I fancy that the poor fellow murmured some incoherent delirious words, and that she twisted them into this meaningless message. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- The ceremonies which follow later are but meaningless formalities. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- On and on it flowed, a current of meaningless sound, on which, startlingly enough, a familiar name now and then floated to the surface. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- The scowl which occasionally showed itself on his square brow was not a meaningless accident. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- He was afraid that one day he would break down and be a purely meaningless babble lapping round a darkness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- There was Shortlands with its meaningless distinction, the meaningless crowd of the Criches. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- If we have no concern or interest, the waving of the arms is as meaningless to us as the gyrations of the arms of a windmill. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Conceive mind as anything but one factor partaking along with others in the production of consequences, and it becomes meaningless. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- But the ideal of annihilation becomes an irrelevant and meaningless phrase. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
编辑:诺拉