useless是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 无用的， 无价值的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seeing clearly that it would be useless to pursue their point, the gentlemen withdrew.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be worse than useless now to inquire which; worse than useless to seek to know wheth-er he has been for years overlooked, or always designedly held prisoner.
-- It would be worse than useless now to make 35any inquiries, because it would be dangerous.
-- The upshot of which, was, to smash this witness like a crockery vessel, and shiver his part of the case to useless lumber.
-- But it is useless to discuss the question.
-- It is useless to say it, I know, but it rises out of my soul.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "To enter into all the details of your feelings I have no right, and besides, I regard that as useless and even harmful," began Alexey Alexandrovitch.
-- If it's settled, it's useless haggling; but if it's not," said Levin, "I'll buy the forest."
-- One was the renunciation of his old life, of his utterly useless education.
-- "But the matter is settled, it's useless thinking about it," Alexey Alexandrovitch told himself.
-- And all of a sudden, instead of his life with his wife being made on an individual pattern, it was, on the contrary, entirely made up of the pettiest details, which he had so despised before, but which now, by no will of his own, had gained an extraordinary importance that it was useless to contend against.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no study, nor were there books, which would have been quite useless to Mr. Fogg; for at the Reform two libraries, one of general literature and the other of law and politics, were at his service.
-- "I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new."
-- He was at this moment calculating in his mind the number of hours spent since his departure from London, and, had it been in his nature to make a useless demonstration, would have rubbed his hands for satisfaction.
-- Phileas Fogg had not concealed from Sir Francis his design of going round the world, nor the circumstances under which he set out; and the general only saw in the wager a useless eccentricity and a lack of sound common sense.
-- First, though, let me tell you that those gentlemen have put themselves to a useless expense."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was the perfect person to whom to sell useless things.
-- When Martin suggested that all milk should be pasteurized, that certain tenements known to be tuberculosis-breeders should be burnt down instead of being fumigated in a fiddling useless way, when he hinted that these attacks would save more lives than ten thousand sermons and ten years of parades by little girls carrying banners and being soaked by the rain, then Pickerbaugh worried, "No, no, Martin, don't think we could do that.
-- Was he going to fall in love with this desirable and quite useless young woman?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the other persons in the room, includ-ing the tavern- keeper, the clerk looked as though he were used to their company, and weary of it, showing a shade of condescending contempt for them as persons of station and culture inferior to his own, with whom it would be useless for him to converse.
-- Does not my heart ache to think what a useless worm I am?
-- Who would not be angered when it was quite clear without any na脙炉ve questions and when it was understood that it was useless to discuss it.
-- 'I was joking of course, but look here; on one side we have a stupid, senseless, worthless, spiteful, ailing, hor-rid old woman, not simply useless but doing actual mischief, who has not an idea what she is living for herself, and who will die in a day or two in any case.
-- To go on ringing was useless and out of place.
扩展阅读：