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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was deeply sorry tohave touched on such a painful theme, but that was useless now.
-- She now observed to me, aloud, resuming her former restraint, thatit was useless to hear more, or to say more, and that she begged toput an end to the interview.
-- The suddenness with which he dropped it,when he perceived that it was useless to him; the malice, insolence,and hatred he revealed; the leer with which he exulted, even at thismoment, in the evil he had done- all this time being desperate too,and at his wits' end for the means of getting the better of us-though perfectly consistent with the experience I had of him, atfirst took even me by surprise, who had known him so long, anddisliked him so heartily.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oak cast his eyes down the field in a way implying that it was useless to attempt argument.
-- He had a quick comprehension and considerable force of character; but, being without the power to combine them, the comprehension became engaged with trivialities whilst waiting for the will to direct it, and the force wasted itself in useless grooves through unheeding the comprehension.
-- "If I am useless I will go," said Bathsheba, in a flagging cadence.
-- They took her away into a further room, and the medical attendance which had been useless in Troy's case was invaluable in Bathsheba's, who fell into a series of fainting-fits that had a serious aspect for a time.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It did not escape his eyes that not a crumb was wasted in the house, nor that the wine they drank was made from the second pressing; a 莽卢卢15 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 multitude of small things, which it is useless to speak of in detail here, made him burn to distinguish himself, and his ambition to succeed increased tenfold.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, these are useless complaints; I shall certainly find no friend on the wide ocean, nor even here in Archangel, among merchants and seamen.
-- You have bur-dened your memory with exploded systems and useless names.
-- I returned home not disappointed, for I have said that I had long considered those authors useless whom the profes-sor reprobated; but I returned not at all the more inclined to recur to these studies in any shape.
-- Liberty, however, had been a useless gift to me, had I not, as I awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to re-venge.
-- Nor did my hate long confine itself to useless wishes; I began to reflect on the best means of securing him; and for this purpose, about a month after my release, I repaired to a criminal judge in the town and told him that I had an ac-cusation to make, that I knew the destroyer of my family, and that I required him to exert his whole authority for the apprehension of the murderer.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ellen went about with a puckered,worried forehead and Gerald swore more frequently than usual and brought her useless gifts from Jonesboro.
-- It was useless for her to take little Wade from Prissy.
-- Melly sold useless stuff to men who could have no possible use for it as quietly andserenely as a shopkeeper, and Scarlett patterned her conduct on Melly's.
-- Useless for the patriotic Mrs. Merriwether to upbraid her daughter and point out that homespun was theproper bridal attire for a Confederate bride.
-- Captain Carey Ashburn's useless arm was hurting him again and moreover he was depressed by the thought thathis courtship of Scarlett was at a standstill.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Don't try on useless measures.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Temperance, industry, exercise, and cleanliness, are the lessons equally enjoined to the young ones of both sexes: and my master thought it monstrous in us, to give the fe-males a different kind of education from the males, except in some articles of domestic management; whereby, as he truly observed, one half of our natives were good for noth-ing but bringing children into the world; and to trust the care of our children to such useless animals, he said, was yet a greater instance of brutality.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I ha no favour for 'em I ha no reason to favour 'em but 'tis hopeless and useless to dream o' takin them fro their trade, 'stead o' takin their trade fro them!Aw that's now about me in this room were heer afore I coom, an' will be heer when I am gone.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried my uncle; "it appears to me a collection of useless odd volumes, and a beggarly amount of empty shelves."
-- It was utterly useless to show any signs of impatience.
-- At all events, the precaution was a good one; though how utterly useless and unnecessary--but I must not anticipate.
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