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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had read of the horrors of thirst, and I knew that where we were, a brief trial of its sufferings would put an end to our adventures--and our lives!But it was utterly useless to discuss the matter with my uncle.
-- What I suffered it is useless to record.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's a very fine colour in itself,' said Clifford, 'but useless for making a painting.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Barnacle Junior in that state of search after it that Mr Clennam felt it useless to reply at present.)
-- 'It is useless my addressing myself to a rash and headstrong old man who has a set purpose not to hear me.'
-- 'O my brother!O William, William!You to go before me; you to go alone; you to go, and I to remain!You, so far superior, so distinguished, so noble; I, a poor useless creature fit for nothing, and whom no one would have missed!'
-- Upon that the aunt fondled her, as if she had said something noble instead of despicable and false, and kept up the infamous pretence by replying, 'But there are reasonable limits, my dear love, to everything, and I see that this poor miserable girl causes you more constant and useless distress than even so good an effort justifies.'
-- 'If she had constantly thought of herself, and settled with herself that everybody visited this place upon her, turned it against her, and cast it at her, she would have led an irritable and probably an useless existence.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was very hard to do, but she did it, know-ing that delay was both useless and cruel.
-- Her aunt thought that she regretted her answer to Fred, and finding denials useless and explanations impossible, Amy left her to think what she liked, taking care that Laurie should know that Fred had gone to Egypt.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I then went on, beginning with the rise and progress of the primitive religions, and coming down to the various religions of the present time, during which time I labored to show Queequeg that all these Lents, Ramadans, and prolonged ham-squattings in cold, cheerless rooms were stark nonsense; bad for the health; useless for the soul; opposed, in short, to the obvious laws of Hygiene and common sense.
-- The oars were useless as propellers, performing now the office of life-preservers.
-- But Death plucked down some virtuous elder brother, on whose whistling daily toil solely hung the responsibilities of some other family, and left the worse than useless old man standing, till the hideous rot of life should make him easier to harvest.
-- You would have almost thought they were pulling down the cursed Bastille, such wild cries they raised, as the now useless brick and mortar were being hurled into the sea.
-- Away, mates, to the ship!those boats are useless now; repair them if ye can in time, and return to me; if not, Ahab is enough to die Down, men!the first thing that but offers to jump from this boat I stand in, that thing I harpoon.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His left arm, rudely bandaged in a shawl, hung heavy and useless at his side; the bandage was saturated with blood.
-- 'We must be active, Oliver, and not give way to useless grief,' said Mrs. Maylie, laying her finger on her lip, as she looked steadily into his face; 'this letter must be sent, with all possible expedition, to Mr. Losberne.
-- Notwithstanding the evidently useless nature of their search, they did not desist until the coming on of night rendered its further prosecution hopeless; and even then, they gave it up with reluctance.
-- A few leaky boats drawn up on the mud, and made fast to the dwarf wall which skirted it: and here and there an oar or coil of rope: appeared, at first, to indicate that the inhabitants of these miserable cottages pursued some avocation on the river; but a glance at the shattered and useless condition of the articles thus displayed, would have led a passer-by, without much difficulty, to the conjecture that they were disposed there, rather for the preservation of appearances, than with any view to their being actually employed.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vain indeed must be all her attentions, vain and useless her affection for his sister and her praise of himself, if he were already self-destined for another.
-- Mr. Collins might never make the offer, and till he did, it was useless to quarrel about him.
-- she cried; 'I, who have prided myself on my discernment!I, who have valued my-self on my abilities!who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blameable mistrust!How humiliating is this discovery!Yet, how just a humiliation!Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind!But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
-- 'Do not give way to useless alarm,' added he; 'though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
-- It is useless to talk of it.'
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