fool's errand

fool's errand

美 　英

  • n.徒勞的差使
  • 網絡徒勞無功的工作；徒勞的工作；徒勞無功的任務

英漢解釋

n.
1.
徒勞的差使

英英解釋

n.

例句

In an interview with The Atlantic magazine, the top U. S. diplomat accused China "of trying to stop history, which is a fool's errand. "

在接受《大西洋》月刊的采訪是，這位美國高級外交官稱中國“妄圖改變歷史”。

Gibbs: Jack, it's a fool's errand. Well, you know better than me the tales of the Black Pearl.

杰克：我想去尋找黑珍珠。我知道黑珍珠在哪兒。我會找到它的。

It was a death wish, a fool's errand, and he had never courted death or been a fool.

這是一次死亡之旅，一次傻瓜差事，而他，從未被判死刑，也從來沒有當過傻瓜。

So I'd agree with you. A fool's errand, no doubt about it.

所以我同意你的話，我這些舉動還真是愚蠢行為，毫無疑問。

"One hopes that these things are useful, " he said, "but it can be a fool's errand to try to detect any immediate use for them. "

“人們希望這些東西是有用的，”他說，“但是，試圖探究這些交流的直接效用是傻瓜才做的事情。”

Trying to single out financiers from entrepreneurs is a fool's errand: you will end up hurting both.

試圖從企業家中挑選出金融家不愚蠢的：最終會兩敗俱傷。

But trying to legislate trade balance is a fool's errand.

然而，要知道通過立法來平衡貿易只是徒勞。

By sending him out there on a plausible fool's errand, it keeps the heat off of us while we engage in the business at hand.

把那幫蠢貨差遣去做個看起來很正式的任務可以使我們忙手頭上的工作的時候不那么受關注。

The people who advised to come to me for money sent you on a fool's errand. I never lend money.

建議我們到這兒來借錢的人讓你白跑了一趟了，我從不借錢。

Micro-optimizing the steps of an inefficient algorithm is a fool's errand.

對低效算法步驟進行細微的優化是徒勞無益的事情。

Certainly it's a fool's errand to try to catch the market's twists and turns.

努力趕上市場的每一個起落，當然是傻子才做的事。

A fool's errand . . . but so is chipping at a blank concrete wall for twenty-eight years.

我真傻，但是花了二十七年的光陰在混凝土墻中敲敲打打，也同樣傻。

He bristled at Pollan's statement that turning the "ecological clock to 1492 is a fool's errand, futile and pointless to boot. "

他為Pollan寫的將生態狀況回到1492年是件白癡的工作，無用，而且對將來無意義的，這句話而戰栗。

Even in quiet times, predicting the paths of exchange rates is a fool's errand.

即便是在正常時期，判斷匯率走勢也是愚蠢的舉動。

We need to abandon that fool's errand in favour of a new approach: minilateralism.

我們需要放棄這個愚蠢的使命，轉而采取一種新的方式：最小化的多邊主義（minilateralism）。

Enduring adoration for the maestro's mind-bending 1987 creation, The Fool's Errand.

對藝術大師1987年令人費解的杰作《傻瓜的使命》的持久的崇拜。

Caesar wouldn't pull a hair for his eagle. You're on a fool's errand.

鷹對愷撒來說無足輕重，你們的任務毫無意義。

Do you think we're on a fool's errand?

你認為我們在徒勞的奔波？。

His fool's errand will keep him most occupied!

他的白癡差事會讓他忙的團團轉

A fool's errand, you say.

你會說，這還真是愚蠢的行為。

I wonder on what fool's errand an earwig, or a moth, or a sow bug, would visit that clean corner of the house behind the toilet;

我在想為什么這些小飛蟲和蠼螋以及飛蛾會那么愚蠢飛到洗手間旁那個干凈的角落。