Worthless
['wɜːθlɪs] or ['wɝθləs]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate.
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同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Useless, valueless, naught, bootless, fruitless, profitless, nugatory, unserviceable, futile, unproductive, unprofitable, miserable, poor, wretched.[2]. Base, vile, unworthy, ignoble, abject, depraved, profligate, abandoned, graceless, good for nothing.[3]. Refuse, waste.[4]. Tinsel, showy, glittering, gaudy, superficial, trashy, trumpery, flimsy.[5]. Trifling, trivial, paltry, frivolous, slight, piddling, of no moment, of small importance.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Cheap, vile, valueless, useless, base, contemptible, despicable, reprobate,vicious
ANT:Costly, rich, rare, valuable, worthy, useful, honorable, estimable, excellent,noble, precious, admirable, virtuous
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例句/造句/用法:
- I don't wish to throw away my time and trouble on an offering you would deem worthless. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- You will kill off Pilar, Anselmo, Agustín, Primitivo, this jumpy Eladio, the worthless gypsy and old Fernando, and you won't get your bridge blown. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- No one had ever carried the hay away and the four seasons that had passed had flattened the cocks and made the hay worthless. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Many exotic plants have pollen utterly worthless, in the same condition as in the most sterile hybrids. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- He has already turned his state-room into a museum of worthless trumpery, which he has gathered up in his travels. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- For many years old and worn out rubber goods were thrown away as worthless. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- They are worthless. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I thought you a broken toy that had lasted its time; a worthless spangle that was tarnished, and thrown away. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I am as worthless a dog as you will find, except that I am not false—not false. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- How worthless to them will seem the honours and glories of the den! 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- In colonial times, every family made its own supply of soap, utilizing, for that purpose, household scraps often regarded by the housekeeper of to-day as worthless. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- On the other hand, they are worthless for cell growth and repair, and if we limited our diet to carbohydrates, we should be like a man who had fuel but no engine capable of using it. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The fire was smoking and Pilar called to Maria, Blow up the fire, worthless one. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- De Hamal is most worthless, yet I fear he pleases her: wretched delusion! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Everything being hollow and worthless, she had missed nothing and sacrificed nothing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The gypsy is worthless although his intentions are good. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- It is for the most worthless of all purposes, too, that they are taxed in this manner. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Certainly it was not worth being delayed by something so sad and ugly and apparently worthless. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- In the United States, approximately two fifths of the land area is so dry as to be worthless for agricultural purposes unless artificially watered. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I had heard him call them his treasures: as I picked them up, cracked and worthless, my hand trembled. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Charles Goodyear took this nearly worthless material, and made of it, as Parton said in 1865--not a new material merely, but a new class of materials, applicable to a thousand divers uses. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- In all cases positive palaeontological evidence may be implicitly trusted; negative evidence is worthless, as experience has so often shown. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Hence the elimination of the worthless gangue by concentration of the iron particles associated with it, seemed to be the only solution of the problem. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Votes in themselves are worthless things. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Local aid is always either worthless or else biassed. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- What a vast profusion of good things upon a useless life and a worthless liver! 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Material treated in this way is thoroughly bleached, but is at the same time rotten and worthless. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- He is truly worthless. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Worthless thing! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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