useless
adjective /ˈjuːsləs/
/ˈjuːsləs/
- not useful; not doing or achieving what is needed or wanted
无用的；无效的；无价值的 - This pen is useless.
这支笔没用了。 - All I got from him was some useless advice and a loan of £200.
我从他那里得到的只是一些无用的建议和200英镑的贷款。 - useless to do something He knew it was useless to protest.
他知道抗议是徒劳的。 - useless doing something It's useless worrying about it.
为这事担心无济于事。 - The quality ranged from acceptable to worse than useless.
质量从尚可到非常糟糕不等。 - She tried to work, but it was useless (= she wasn't able to).
她很想做事，但力不从心。
- A computer program with too many icons is worse than useless.
一个图标太多的计算机程序还不如没有。 - Her efforts to avoid him proved useless.
她怎么也躲不开他。 - The condition rendered her legs virtually useless.
这种病使她的双腿几乎丧失了功能。 - The information was useless to him.
这条信息对他来说没有价值。 - The land is useless for cattle.
这块地根本不能用来牧牛。 - There are two manuals, both of them equally useless.
有两本说明书，都没有什么用处。 - They rejected the designs as useless.
他们拒绝接受这些设计，认为没有用处。 - This drug is useless in the treatment of patients with AIDS.
这种药对艾滋病患者毫无疗效。 - Critics argued that the space programme was a useless waste of money.
批评家认为太空计划是对金钱的无用浪费。 - The letter is useless as evidence.
这封信作为证据毫无价值。
Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- feel
- prove
- …
- absolutely
- completely
- entirely
- …
- as
- for
- in
- …
- This pen is useless.
- (informal) not very good at something; not able to do things well
差劲的；不行的；不擅长的 - useless at something I'm useless at French.
我的法语不太行。 - I'm pretty useless at this job.
这种工作我一窍不通。 - useless at doing something I'm useless at remembering names.
我记不住名字。 - Don't ask her to help. She's useless.
别求她帮忙。她没那个能耐。
Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- absolutely
- completely
- pretty
- …
- at
- useless at something I'm useless at French.