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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was absolutely impossible to make inquiries when there was no one to address, and Lord Glenarvan came to the conclusion that Captain Grant must have been dragged right over the Andes into the Pampas, and that it would be useless to search for him elsewhere.
-- Sometimes the Major followed him, and sometimes Paganel, ready to lend a helping hand among the slippery peaks and dangerous precipices among which he was dragged by his rash and useless imprudence.
-- It would have been useless for the travelers to attempt to overtake them with such wornout horses.
-- If there should be water enough in the river, they are to wait on the banks till their companions reach them; but should it be dried up, they will hasten back and spare them a useless journey."
-- Possibly he might have made a useless attempt at flight when his eye fell on Thalcave.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You tell me in the same breath that it is useless to investigate Sir Charles's death, and that you desire me to do it.'
-- 'It seems a singularly useless thing to steal,' said Sherlock Holmes.
-- 'It is useless for us to pretend that we do not know you, Dr. Watson,' said he.
-- I stooped, panting, and pressed my pistol to the dreadful, shimmer-ing head, but it was useless to press the trigger.
-- By chance, however, the first boot which was procured for him was a new one and, therefore, useless for his purpose.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He told me of his joy, the joyful feeling of having done a good action; he said that it was all thanks to myself that he could feel this satisfaction; and held forth about the foolishness of the theory that individual charity is useless 'I, too, was burning to have my say!
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ajax son of Telamon answered, 'My good fellow, let your bow and your arrows be, for Jove has made them useless in order to spite the Danaans.
-- When Hector saw that Teucer's bow was of no more use to him, he shouted out to the Trojans and Lycians, 'Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanians good in close fight, be men, my friends, and show your mettle here at the ships, for I see the weapon of one of their chieftains made useless by the hand of Jove.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of exis-tence by evolution sooner or later.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alas!there the sor-ry, useless stuff lay; I had no more manner of business for it; and often thought with myself that I would have given a handful of it for a gross of tobacco-pipes; or for a hand-mill to grind my corn; nay, I would have given it all for a sixpen-ny-worth of turnip and carrot seed out of England, or for a handful of peas and beans, and a bottle of ink.
-- As to all the disputes, wrangling, strife, and contention which have happened in the world about religion, whether niceties in doctrines or schemes of church government, they were all perfectly useless to us, and, for aught I can yet see, they have been so to the rest of the world.
-- Upon this, I told him the first thing we had to do was to stave the boat which lay upon the beach, so that they might not carry her of, and taking everything out of her, leave her so far useless as not to be fit to swim.
-- When I took leave of this island, I carried on board, for relics, the great goat-skin cap I had made, my umbrella, and one of my parrots; also, I forgot not to take the money I for-merly mentioned, which had lain by me so long useless that it was grown rusty or tarnished, and could hardly pass for silver till it had been a little rubbed and handled, as also the money I found in the wreck of the Spanish ship.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I thought maybe you didn't," he said, beating about the bush in the most useless manner.
-- He began to think that it would be useless to wait, and got hold of his umbrella and light coat, intending to take these things, any way.
-- She felt at times as if she could cry out and make such a row that some one would come to her aid; at other times it seemed an almost useless thing--so far was she from any aid, no matter what she did.
-- We'll be gone for the summer, and it would be a useless expense.
-- Chapter XXXVII THE SPIRIT AWAKENS--NEW SEARCH FOR THE GATE It would be useless to explain how in due time the last fifty dollars was in sight.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is useless for you to tempt me!I told you I promised my good Fairy to behave myself, and I am going to keep my word."
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