to no purpose

基本解釋

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
沒(méi)有任何目的的誠(chéng)實(shí)真煩人。
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
人的一生僅僅是時(shí)間長(zhǎng)河之一粟，讓我們好好享受這僅有的一生，讓它充滿意義。
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A pointed objection to George Bush’s policies is not just that they crossed a moral line but that they crossed it to no purpose.
一項(xiàng)指向喬治亞?布什政策的異議并不在于這些政策違背了道德原則，而在于它們漫無(wú)目的地違反了它。

" I have no purpose," he said, "either directly or indirectly, to interfere with slavery where it exists.
Eight features of literary modernism: An obsession with the idea of art's autonomy, the idea that art is its own law, that it responds to no other laws, that it has no other purpose than its own purposes.
第一，對(duì)藝術(shù)意志自由問(wèn)題的困擾,對(duì)藝術(shù)是自身的法律，它不響應(yīng)其他準(zhǔn)則,它只有本身這唯一的目的，也就是說(shuō)。
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 1945年后的美國(guó)小說(shuō)課程節(jié)選
Serfs who are compelled to work the land, or in some places even slaves, well, they have no incentive, put aside the question even of capacity, to invest capital for the purpose of improving the size and quality of the their crops, their trees, their vines.
那些被強(qiáng)迫耕種土地的農(nóng)奴,或者是那些在其他地方直接成為奴隸的人,刨除能動(dòng)性因素,農(nóng)場(chǎng)主們,沒(méi)有任何理由投資錢(qián)財(cái),去改善他們農(nóng)作物,果樹(shù)和葡萄,的種植規(guī)模和品質(zhì)
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