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Senseless has two main meanings. It can describe someone who is unconscious, as in 'knocked senseless'. It can also describe an action that has no clear reason or purpose - especially something bad or violent, like a 'senseless act of violence', meaning it made no sense and had no good reason behind it.
失去知覺的；毫無意義的、無理由的
原始詞典資料4 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。
senselessadj/ˈsɛnsləs/
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Without feeling or desire to work; deprived of sensation.
- The blow to his head rendered him senseless; he didn’t awaken until he was in the ambulance.
- That hoary man had spent his livelong age / In converse with the dead, who leave the stamp / Of ever-burning thoughts on many a page, / When they are gone into the senseless damp / Of graves; […]
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Lacking meaning or purpose; without common sense.
- What a senseless waste of money.
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Without a discernible meaning or purpose, especially of a violent or evil act.
- The school shooting was a senseless act of violence.
- Addressing the nation on Thursday, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala called the shooting “a senseless attack” and said “this Christmas will be unimaginably sad.”
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Without consideration, awareness or sound judgement
- He took senseless risks, not even aware of the danger he was in.
- [T]he King vvas obliged to qualify his grant, by eſtabliſhing betvveen the contending parties a rotation of ſeniority, each to take place alternately for a year, the ſurvivor to precede for his life the heir of the other, and ſo in perpetuum. A ſenſeleſs jumble, ſoon liquidated by a more egregious act of folly, the King vvith his ovvn hand crovvning the young Duke of VVarvvick King of the Iſle of VVight— […]
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。