aimlessly [
'eimlisli]
ad. 无目的地(无引导地,没有准则地)
aimlessly[ adv ]
without aim; in an aimless manner
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he wandered around aimlessly
Aimless \Aim"less\, a.
Without aim or purpose; as, an aimless life. --
{Aim"less*ly}, adv. -- {Aim"less*ness}, n.
- Three-foot-high lighted flagsticks marked the holes, while glow-in-the-dark golf balls sailed aimlessly through the air like drunken fireflies.
- He expects both stocks and bonds to continue drifting aimlessly until a week from today, when the government report on employment growth and unemployment in May will give investors their next significant reading on economic trends.
- The stock market drifted aimlessly today, pausing after more than a week of steady gains.
- Stock prices drifted aimlessly in quiet trading today as traders looked ahead to a potentially volatile week.
- The stock market drifted aimlessly in quiet trading Wednesday, still seemingly in the "summer doldrums" with autumn about to arrive.
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average eased 2.13 points to 2295.81 after trading aimlessly in a narrow range.
- The stock market drifted aimlessly in quiet trading today amid concern over the interest-rate outlook.
- "It's more of the same stuff," said one trader. "Interest is just shifting around aimlessly." Some traders said a lower dollar helped relieve concerns over possible higher interest rates and inflation that have hurt the market recently.
- Wall Street began the day where it left off on Monday, drifting aimlessly for several hours, but the market picked up steam in the afternoon.
- The stock market drifted aimlessly today as traders awaited the latest report on employment.
- The stock market drifted aimlessly today in a wary response to gloomy news on employment.
- Amy Heckerling ("Fast Times at Ridgemont High") directed her own script, a loose affair that allows the actors to ad lib aimlessly.
- Sell. Since April the US currency has been drifting aimlessly in the market, undermined by sluggish growth in the US economy and a huge interest rate differential in favour of the powerful D-Mark. But in recent days, dealers have become aggressive bears.
- The stock market drifted aimlessly today in a quiet yearend session.
- What is now East Germany will spin aimlessly in limbo for weeks after Germany unites, then slowly emerge from the remains of the old nation as five distinct lands.
- Futures for refined petroleum products also fluctuated aimlessly Tuesday.
- The index opened 1.8 points higher and then rose as much as 8.9 points in the late morning before drifting aimlessly lower during the afternoon.
- Then it rained, and the party was postponed 24 hours, leaving thousands of would-be revelers wandering aimlessly past soggy beer and souvenir stands, and the empty soundstages set up for street-party bands.
- It's a strategy that some money managers use when the bond market starts to bounce around aimlessly, as prices stop rising and interest rates stabilize.
- In the corporate bond market, prices drifted aimlessly. Last week was a busy week for new corporate bonds.
- Stock prices drifted aimlessly today in post-Thanksgiving trading interrupted for more than an hour and a half by an unspecified power problem at the New York Stock Exchange.
- The boy aimlessly roams through Cairo, turns into a criminal and ends up dying on the gallows.
- Before the release of the initial claims report yesterday morning, bond prices drifted aimlessly in very light activity, as they had all week.
- Wall Street and Tokyo have been plunging around aimlessly, but both ended only modestly down on the week.
- It's a big-city motorist's nightmare: driving aimlessly for an hour or more seeking a legal parking space.
- Institutional investors could find nothing to go for yesterday in a London market where base rate hopes have been fulfilled; share prices drifted aimlessly in the general direction of Budget Day, next Tuesday.
- A woman walks aimlessly through the information center at Ramstein U.S. Air Force Base calling out "Hans," the name of her missing husband.
- "(Her policy) is drifting aimlessly, swaying wherever the wind blows," said Laurel. "What happens is that the ship of state is moving nowhere.