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a. 无意义的



    meaningless
    [ adj ]
    having no meaning or direction or purpose
    <adj.all>
    a meaningless endeavora meaningless life
    a verbose but meaningless explanation


    Meaning \Mean"ing\, n.
    1. That which is meant or intended; intent; purpose; aim;
    object; as, a mischievous meaning was apparent.

    If there be any good meaning towards you. --Shak.

    2. That which is signified, whether by act lanquage;
    signification; sense; import; as, the meaning of a hint.

    3. Sense; power of thinking. [R.]
    ※ -- {Mean"ing*less}, a. -- {Mean"ing*ly},
    adv.

    meaningless \meaningless\ adj.
    having no meaning; of no value; as, a meaningless endeavor; a
    meaningless life; a meaningless explanation. Opposite of
    {meaningful}. [Narrower terms: {insignificant ; {mindless,
    unmeaning ; {nonsense(prenominal), nonsensical ; {pointless,
    purposeless ] Also See: {insignificant}, {unimportant},
    {purposeless}, {unimportant}.
    [WordNet 1.5]

    1. But to say as the newsletter did that this book is `scientifically meaningless' is rather global, and not correct." Calls to Prentice-Hall were not returned.
    2. But Defrank said the 3,000 hours is a standard mean time, meaning it is an average. "To criticize the Air Force for one IMU failing is meaningless because it's the mean time between failures that is important, and we're meeting that," he said.
    3. Someone who deposited Pounds 5,000 in Halifax's 90-day Xtra account would have earned, after basic rate tax, 50.5 per cent over the same period. Performance figures may be meaningless.
    4. His description of the lesbian movement as "extraordinarily popular on some college campuses" is meaningless and imprecise.
    5. But for individuals who buy much smaller amounts and care less about relative performance than in preserving what they have, that margin is meaningless.
    6. His declaration of support for a dynamic market economy is meaningless unless he shows that he knows what it would take to sustain it. Leadership may be about broad perspectives and aspirations.
    7. Yet, some family members may do so unrealistically, "and then there will be unprotected older people who will undergo meaningless violence," he said.
    8. Education secretary Kenneth Clarke said it was a 'meaningless formality'.
    9. The company braced for a flood of investors to redeem their Magellan shares, but it turned out to be "a fairly meaningless number," says George A. Vanderheiden, a Fidelity vice president who will oversee Mr. Smith.
    10. "It was meaningless straw polls four years ago," says Richard Moe, a senior adviser to Democratic Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri.
    11. They have said any budget written solely by Congress will be meaningless because Bush will veto elements he opposes, such as deep defense cuts and tax increases.
    12. During that visit, he signed a joint declaration of general principles that seemed fairly meaningless at the time.
    13. Never mind that peculiar seasonal adjustments probably make the official Yuletide retail sales statistics almost meaningless.
    14. The new books are filled with metaphors of the senselessness of the war, of American blood spilled in assaults against meaningless hills and mountaintops of no strategic value.
    15. Such figures are meaningless, he says, unless you set them against the size of the outstanding debt. Ms Albright is equally irritated by his attitude.
    16. "Without a conviction in this case we must believe that everything Medgar fought and died for was meaningless," said Evers' widow, Myrlie Evers of Los Angeles.
    17. But to say 'Up to Pounds 1m was stolen', as they did on the BBC's south east regional news, is meaningless.
    18. Teachers also should beware of the importance a homeless child may attach to seemingly meaningless possessions.
    19. If the Senate action becomes law, the court challenge of the regulations will become meaningless.
    20. I've read meaningless speculation about that in certain periodicals, but I'm inclined to discount it, because I know what I feel about my top staff and I know whether they have - whether they have my confidence or not - and they do.
    21. This would be meaningless unless it included a plan for bringing peace to Bosnia. That policy, in Bosnia as elsewhere, must be based on a clear Franco-German understanding.
    22. Sometimes checks can be overwritten, but data can be corrupted by valid, but totally meaningless entries.
    23. "Without it the law could easily become just another in a series of meaningless decrees."
    24. Yet the debate about the "narrow" vs. "broad" interpretations of the ABM Treaty is largely meaningless.
    25. On that occasion, the Casey Jones at the throttle, Speaker Jim Wright, had the cheek to order a meaningless voice vote on the salary increase the day after it automatically became law.
    26. Nobody wants to do stupid, meaningless work." King's stresses in his lectures that animal researchers are not extremists.
    27. It was built into the policy for recognising Croatia and will prove entirely meaningless. There is a portmanteau phrase of the New Imperialism to cover all this: 'good governance.'
    28. Claudia Bushbaum, secretary-treasurer for Teamsters Local 2747, said the airline's offer to negotiate on the contract was meaningless.
    29. That figure is relatively meaningless, however, because of the rapidly escalating prices for in the international art market for both old masters and modern paintings.
    30. 'The present government's approach to individual rights at work is meaningless without access to employee representation in order that these rights may be pursued.
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