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Meaningless describes something that has no meaning, no purpose, or no importance. A sentence can be meaningless if the words don't make sense together. A rule can feel meaningless if nobody understands why it exists or nobody follows it. A gesture, like an apology, can be called meaningless if the person doesn't really mean it — the words are said, but no real feeling is behind them. People also say a job feels 'meaningless' when it seems pointless, like it doesn't matter to anyone.
無意義的、沒有意義的
組成meaning + -less (without) — without meaning
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
meaninglessadj/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.ləs/
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Lacking meaning.
- The word "gugugu" is meaningless in English.
- As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like um, uh and er.
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Insignificant; not worthy of importance.
- All our efforts were ultimately meaningless.
- Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。