pointlessness

Many of his poems are about the pointlessness of life .

他的诗大多嗟叹人生的虚空。

A long rambling joke whose humor derives from its pointlessness .

冗长松散的笑话，笑料来自于其无意义性。

This punishment did initially strike me as something of an exercise in pointlessness .

开始时，我的确认为这种惩罚毫无意义。

But the sense of giddy pointlessness is Russian to the core .

但是那种轻佻的无意义感则是彻底的俄罗斯风格。

The second is the vagueness of some of definitions and the pointlessness of others .

第二是他的有些定义含糊其词而另一些无关宏旨。

Anyone tagged has to do the same , because fun pointlessness spreads like a virus .

所有人的必须做同样的事，因为大家的快乐会像病毒一样传播开来！

His emphasis on speed was natural enough , granted his Bletchley experience , in which speed was of the very essence , a few hours marking the difference between usefulness and pointlessness .

他之所以对速度非常重视，可能是出于他在布莱切利的经历。在那里，速度就是一切，几小时的滞后，可以使所有工作前功尽弃。

I mean , my lecturer was saying yesterday that there are aspects of British history that are still not being discussed openly and honestly , like the pointlessness of the First World War , for example .

我的老师昨天还说，英国历史的许多方面是至今还不能开诚布公地讨论的。比如第一次世界大战的无目的性。

I felt coldness , not the air-conditioned chill of southern Georgia but the coldness of a body understanding the ramifications of its own demise , the pointlessness of it all .

我觉得冷，不是因为南乔治亚的强劲空调，而是身体预见终老时所升起的一丝寒意，一切终将失去意义。

First because it would make them laugh , and then because it is the best antiwar novel I know , hilariously dramatizing the pointlessness of empires and the foolishness of military goals and the sheer absurdity and cruelty of people waging war on each other .

首先，这本书会逗乐他们，而且这是我所知道的最佳反战小说，风趣幽默地表现了帝国的无意义，军事目标的愚蠢，以及交战各方纯粹的荒谬和残忍。