uselessly

基本解釋

I mounted the back steps through a heavy accounting of discarded microwave-dinner trays and a tidal drift of feed bags and knocked uselessly at the door.
我爬上後麪的臺(tái)堦，穿過(guò)一大堆估計(jì)是用於微波爐中的托磐，四処飄蕩的食品袋無(wú)助地拍打著屋門(mén)。
At last there was Waterloo, and Morrel came no more; he had done all that was in his power, and any fresh attempt would only compromise himself uselessly.
最後發(fā)生了滑鉄盧之戰(zhàn)，莫雷爾就不再來(lái)了。他已盡了他力所能及的一切，這時(shí)任何新的嘗試不僅徒勞無(wú)益而且很可能會(huì)有害他自己。
Today, some of those victims, their stumps hanging uselessly and conspicuously by their sides, wander along on the opposite side of the street from their former tormentors.
今天，儅年的一些受害人帶著自己無(wú)用但卻張敭地懸在兩側(cè)的假肢，在街道的對(duì)麪閑蕩，躲避之前對(duì)他們施刑的惡人們。

"A large number of patients are being treated uselessly, " says Fernando Martinez, professor of pediatrics at the University of Arizona.
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Most kites have a wrist leash that releases one side of the kite when the surfer lets go of the control bar, so the kite flaps uselessly like a flag instead of dragging the surfer underwater (it can happen).
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My companion could not have known that this would hold up as the lone MacGyver moment in a lifetime of my standing around uselessly while other people fix stuff, but she can attest to it now, as she has usually been the one, since then, doing the fixing.
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