pointless

英 [ˈpɔɪntləs]

美 [ˈpɔɪntləs]

adj.  无意义的; 无目标的; 不值得做的

IELTS

Collins.1 / BNC.7557 / COCA.11452

牛津词典

adj.

• 无意义的；无目标的；不值得做的
  having no purpose; not worth doing
  1. We searched until we knew it would be pointless to continue.
     我们搜索又搜索，直到觉得继续下去也枉然时才罢手。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 无益的；无意义的；无目的的
  If you say that something ispointless, you are criticizing it because it has no sense or purpose.
  1. Violence is always pointless...
     暴力总是毫无意义的。
  2. Without an audience the performance is pointless.
     没有观众，表演就不成其为表演了。
  3. ...pointless arguments.
     无益的争论

英英释义

adj

• not having a point especially a sharp point
  1. my pencils are all pointless
  Synonym:unpointed
• serving no useful purpose
  1. otiose lines in a play
  2. advice is wasted words
  3. a pointless remark
  4. a life essentially purposeless
  5. senseless violence
  Synonym:otiosepurposelesssenselesssuperfluouswasted

双语例句

• Well, then, it's pointless to continue, we'll stop!
  那继续下去就毫无意义了，我们停止吧。
• You know this is pointless.
  你知道那没什么意义。
• In such cases, my experience is that it's pointless arguing against this approach.
  在这种情况下，我认为对于这种方法的讨论都是毫无意义的。
• He asked them all kinds of pointless questions, stalling for time.
  他向他们提了各种毫无意义的问题来拖延时间。
• His pointless questions irritated me.
  他那无意义的质疑令我恼怒。
• Even so, I still think you probably did right, in a pointless kind of way.
  即便如此，我仍然认为你也许这么做是对的，尽管这毫无意义。
• Violence is always pointless
  暴力总是毫无意义的。
• Since we can neither create nor destroy time, it's pointless to fight it.
  1由于我们既不能创造也不能毁灭时间，所以与它做斗争是没有意义的。
• We don't know all the circumstances, so it would be pointless to speculate.
  我们不了解所有的情况，妄加推测是没有意义的。
• At least all the pointless activity raises an interesting question: which company made itself look worse?
  所有这些无意义的活动，至少提出了一个有意思的问题：是哪家公司让自己的形象变得更差了？