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1. I had it on the tip of my tongue to ask him why he left home, but the uselessness of it was apparent.
我差点问他为什么离家，但显然问也无用。
1. 无用：纳粹将这种无用(uselessness)在战争期间推到反功利的极点,尽管缺少建筑材料和圆木,他们仍然建造了巨大的、成本昂贵的死亡工厂,将几百万人运来运去. 在严格的功利主义世界眼中,这些行为与军事征伐之间的明显矛盾使整个事业蒙上一层疯狂的非现实气氛.
2. 无用、浪费：useless resistance有害阻力 | uselessness无用、浪费 | user用户
1. When I was in elementary school, they constantly reminded me of the uselessness of literacy.
2. Thus the bank notes are fine unless they are touched and therefore doomed to uselessness.
3. The idea I seek to communicate in the book is not the uselessness of knowledge.
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