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This is how you do something when the doing itself has no use. You add it to a verb: you argue pointlessly, wait pointlessly, check your phone pointlessly. It does not add a new meaning beside pointless; it only lets the same idea sit on the action rather than on the thing. Same point as purpose, not a sharp tip. Everyday English. You hear it when someone is a little tired or — it often carries a small sigh.
毫無意義地、白費力氣地
原始詞典資料1 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。
pointlesslyadv/ˈpɔɪntləsli/
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Without point; in a pointless manner; so as to lack purpose or importance.
- He sat there, pointlessly tossing the ball into the air and letting it fall, over and over.
- […]as a result of which, the two scenarios in which the Harwich Force caught up with the battle while it was still going on were considered and brought forward into the main timeline, as it meant that both sides' light screening forces actually got to do something other than die pointlessly.
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。