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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What time lost, what useless emotions!We should have been back in France six months ago."
-- The first of these pirates who lays a hand on me ""Do not excite yourself, Ned," I said to the harpooner, "and do not compromise us by useless violence.
-- "That is evident," I replied; "and for the sake of archaeologists let us hope that these excavations will be made sooner or later, when new towns are established on the isthmus, after the construction of the Suez Canal; a canal, however, very useless to a vessel like the Nautilus."
-- "It is useless to expose one's self, Professor.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew that position and authority were the right thing in the world, and it was useless to cant about it.
-- No, women, in that sense, were useless to him any more.
-- Hermione had decided long ago that where there was no mind, it was useless to appeal for reason one had merely to ignore the ignorant.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Terror made me cruel; and, finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes: still it wailed, 'Let me in!'
-- When Kenneth warned him that his medicines were useless at that stage of the malady, and he needn't put him to further expense by attending her, he retorted, 'I know you need not she's well she does not want any more attendance from you!She never was in a consumption.
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