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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Very well,' said I, and stood aside, half-minded to fall upon him as he put his hand upon the latch, but deterred by the thought of my useless arm.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was useless to look down, for he could only see the topsides of the branches, so he stared upward and saw, far away in the blue, Rann the Kite balancing and wheeling as he kept watch over the jungle waiting for things to die.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We should then exchange a warlike for a useless friend!
-- Heyward, perceiving that the stubborn adherence of the scout to the cause of his friends the Delawares, or Mohicans, for they were branches of the same numerous people, was likely to prolong a useless discussion, changed the subject.
-- The young Mohican complied, leaving the scout turn-ing over the useless contents of his pouch, and shaking the empty horn with renewed discontent.
-- Hawkeye exclaimed, dropping the useless piece in bitter disappointment; 'the miscreant has struck the rapid; and had we powder, it could hardly send the lead swifter than he now goes!'
-- Unwilling to prolong a useless discussion, the young man affected to comply, by posting his back against the logs of the blockhouse, in a half recumbent posture, though reso-lutely determined, in his own mind, not to close an eye until he had delivered his precious charge into the arms of Mun-ro himself.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It's as useless to talk to you about these things as to describe colours to a man who was born blind."
-- It all seemed useless and inane.
-- He was an idle, useless scoundrel, who preferred to live with a native woman rather than work for his living like the rest of us.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is useless to say that the darkest corners of the passages were ransacked before they were obliged to give it up in despair.
-- But Pencroft assured him that that would be a useless course, that in the darkness and deplorable weather he could not find any traces of Neb, and that it would be much better to wait.
-- Pencroft soon made a raft of wood, as he had done before, though if there was no fire it would be a useless task, and the raft following the current, they returned towards the Chimneys.
-- The hunters, armed with sticks, could have killed them easily, but they were not guilty of such useless massacre, as it was important not to frighten the seals, who were lying on the sand several cable lengths off.
-- As it was useless to burden themselves with the weight of both the animals, Neb and Pencroft resolved to skin them on the spot, while Cyrus Harding and the reporter continued to explore the islet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were some trifles there poor useless things that she would have liked to take away; but that was impossible.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The reasons are that I consider all courts useless and immoral."
-- And in order to deaden the painful feeling of pity for herself and the useless reprobation of him, she yearned for wine.
-- It is useless to talk any more," she answered, and, rising, left the cell.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was not only useless as an officer and a bad influence amongst the men, but it was plain that at this rate he must soon kill himself outright, so nobody was much surprised, nor very sorry, when one dark night, with a head sea, he disappeared entirely and was seen no more.
-- Well armed, they stole out of the stockade, but it proved a useless mission.
-- Two had bit the dust, one had fled, four had made good their footing inside our defences, while from the shelter of the woods seven or eight men, each evidently supplied with several muskets, kept up a hot though useless fire on the log-house.
-- The hammer fell, but there followed neither flash nor sound; the priming was useless with sea-water.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This useless search could not last much longer.
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