purposeless

['pə:pəslis]

adj.无目的的, 无意义的, 无益的

例句与用法：

Purposeful or industrious activity; enterprise.

企图，进取心有目的的、勤勉刻苦的行动; 进取心

They dealt with the problem in a purposeful way.

他们处理这问题很果断。

词形变化：

副词: purposelessly | 名词: pur-poselessness |

a.

1. 无目的的

2. 无益的

3. 缺乏决心的

purposeless

词形变化：

副词: purposelessly | 名词: pur-poselessness |

同义词：

aimless | null | bootless | adrift | pointless | senseless | irrational | useless | illogical | unreasonable | empty | meaningless | otiose | superfluous | wasted |

反义词：

purposeful |

词义辨析：

同义参见:

aimless

bootless

adrift

null

purposeless['pə:pəslis]adj.1.■漫无目的的；无意义的2.■无决心的

1. done or made with no discernible point or purpose
   漫无目的的；无意义的；无决心的
   purposeless thuggery and vandalism.
   漫无目的的凶杀和野蛮行径。
   ■having no aim or plan
   无目标的，无计划的
   his purposeless life.
   他那毫无目标的生活。
   

purposeless

形容词 purposeless:

not evidencing any purpose or goal

lacking import

同义词：pointless, senseless

purposeless

■"hyped the country up to a purposeless pitch" (Newsweek)

“刺激这个国家到一个无意义的高度”(新闻周刊)

■"Good Heavens," he thought;"surely this must be God's judgment upon the purposeless, vacillating life I led up to the seventh day of last September.

“天哪，”他心中想道，“毫无疑问，这必定是上帝对我在去年九月七日以前所过的那种漫无目的、犹豫动摇的生活所作出的一种天罚。

■Spoken language without thinking sounds like the purposeless random shoots.

不经思考的言语就像是漫无目标的乱射。

■I have been exhilarated by two days of storm, but above all I love these long purposeless days in which I shed all that I have ever been.

两天的暴风雨使我欣喜万分，但我首先喜欢的还是这漫长的无所事事的日子，在这些日子里，我抛弃了旧我，脱胎换骨，获得了新生.

■They had lounged away in a poverty-stricken, purposeless, accidental manner, quite natural and unimpeachable.

人们都走开了。 他们穷，行动都很偶然没有目的。 这很自然，也无懈可击。

■They asked her some questions--questions which were so random and incoherent and seemingly purposeless that the girl felt sure that the old people's minds had been affected by their sudden good fortune;

他们问了她几个问题--问得不着边际、前言不搭后语，听起来毫无目的，让那姑娘觉得这对老夫妻一定是让飞来横财冲昏了头脑。

■Astoundingly purposeful behavior can emerge from purposeless subbehaviors cultivated in software.

令人震惊的是，有目的的行为可以从软件中许多无目的的子行为中显现出来。

■in a meaningless and purposeless manner.

以没有意义、没有目的的方式。

■to lead someone in a purposeless pursuit.

你这么漫无目的地带我乱走一通，真是浪费时间。

■hyped the country up to a purposeless pitch(bNewsweek)

刺激这个国家到一个无意义的高度(b新闻周刊)

■hyped the country up to a purposeless pitch(Newsweek)

刺激这个国家到一个无意义的高度(新闻周刊)

■History is a purposeless activity.

历史是一个毫无意义的活动.

■Over and over again in an endless purposeless cycle men and things are born and die without improvement, without permanent achievement, day after day, year after year.

在无穷无尽而无目标的循环里，人与物生生死死，日复一日，年复一年，并无进步，并无永久常存的成就。

■Approached in the dark, the lights looked lonely and purposeless.

在黑暗中走近时。那些电灯显得孤单而无意义。

■（16）Approached in the dark the bulbs looked lonely and purposeless.

在黑暗中走进时，那些电灯显得孤单而无意义。

■Theroux has spent a lot of time on what the writer Graham Greene called, with palpable nostalgia, "the fine old tradition of purposeless travel of fun and adventure", with only his notebook for company.

塞罗克斯把大量的时间花在作家格雷厄姆·格林带着明显的怀旧感情说的那种“无功利目的、纯粹是消谴和冒险的旅行的优良老传统”上，只有笔记本为伴。

■She feels that her life is purposeless and empty.

她觉得自己的生活空虚且没有方向

■" If applicants don't back this up with real-life examples of what they want to do, it comes off as sounding vague and purposeless.

如果申请者们不能以真实生活中他们想做的事来支撑他们的这些观点，那他们的论文就会现含糊而无目的性。

■If it is, it may prove more palatable to some people than the current interpretation of the biological world as ultimately materialist and purposeless.

如果这是正确的话，这会比将生物界看成绝对物质化和无目的的观点给人们带来更多的欣慰。

■Compulsive purposeless behavior

强迫性无目的行为

■But above all I love these long purposeless days in which I shed all that I have ever been.

我尤其喜爱那些漫长的岁月,我可以漫无目的地混日子,完全摆脱我过去那种(紧张)状态。

■I have been exhilarated by two days of storm,but above all I love these long purposeless days in which I shed all that I have ever been.

我已经被二天的暴风雨使高兴的，但是最重要者我爱这些长者无目的的每天在哪一个曾经是我流出所有的。

■To complete his strange appearance, Captain Flint sat perched upon his shoulder and gabbling odds and ends of purposeless sea-talk.

我腰间拴着一条绳子，顺从地跟在厨子后面。

■Therefore I tended to run away from myself, leading a purposeless life.

所以，我总是自我逃避，漫无目的的生活。

■I have been exhilarated by two days of storms, but above all I love these long purposeless days in which I shed all that I have ever been. (V.

持续了两天的暴风雨使我欣喜若狂，我爱这漫长无所事事的日子胜过一切，在这些日子里，我抛弃了我过去的一切。

■Stalin rightly says that "theory becomes purposeless if it is not connected with revolutionary practice"

斯大林的话说得对:“理论若不和革命实践联系起来，就会变成无对象的理论。”

■Stalin rightly says that "theory becomes purposeless if it is not connected with revolutionary practice".

斯大林的话说得对：“理论若不和革命实践联系起来，就会变成无对象的理论。”

■Stalin has well said, "Theory becomes purposeless if it is not connected with revolutionary practice, just as practice gropes in the dark if its path is not illumined by revolutionary theory.

斯大林说得好：“理论若不和革命实践联系起来，就会变成无对象的理论，同样，实践若不以革命理论为指南，就会变成盲目的实践。”

■purposeless adj.

无目的 ...

■purposeless act

无目的动作

■Increased purposeless goalless activity

无目的性的活动增强

■ruin bad by adding something purposeless.

无目的添加而毁坏了东西。

■a life essentially purposeless;

本质上无意义的生活；

■Just how purposeless and empty they've grown

永不会意识到自己生活的虚空与目的的含混

■Without effective management, organizations inevitably dissipate members' energies and other resources in random, purposeless, and even counter-productive activity.

没有有效的管理，组织将不可避免地把成员的精力和其它资源浪费在随意的、无目的的、甚至降低生产力的活动中。

■Just as purposeless life goes to sea and sails but has no compass.

漫无目的的生活就像出海航行而没有指南针。

■Lastly, it was Isa.She told us that for the last two years, she felt lost, purposeless.

然后，伊莎告诉我们，生命的最后两年里，她感觉自己迷失了方向。

■It is depressing to think that life is purposeless and that evolution has no higher destination.

生命是无目的性的和进化没有更高终点的想法着实让人沮丧。

■creation was mechanistic and purposeless.

生物是机械的、无目的的。

■Since evolution has given rise to few, if any, purposeless physiological response,it is logical to assume that crying has one or more functions that enhance survival.

由于进化给我们带来很少任何毫无目的的生理反应，如果真有的话，假设哭在提高生存机率有一个或更多的作用也是符合逻辑的。

■He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor.

盖茨比在我眼中有了生命，忽然之间从他那子宫般的毫无目的的豪华里分娩了出来。

■purposeless destruction

盲目的破坏

■Personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts is not allowed.

禁止人身攻击或是笔战。

■The third part analyzes the duel characteristics of his life aesthetic thought ,namely purposeless accordance with purpose and non-individuality utilitarianism.

第三部分则分析了梁启超人生审美化思想的二重性及其矛盾:为无目的的合目的性和非个人功利的功利主义。

■The old man, in aiming a purposeless blow at Mr.Guppy, or at nothing, feebly swings himself round and comes with his face against the wall.

老头不知是朝着格皮先生，还是朝着其它甚么地方，毫无目的地挥了挥拳头，有气无力、摇摇晃晃地转过身来，把脸贴在墙上；

■"Chorea: Neurological disorder causing irregular, involuntary, purposeless movements. It is Believed to be caused by degeneration of the Basal ganglia in the cerebral cortex."

舞蹈病:神经系统疾病,导致人体不同部位肌群的不规则、不自主和无目的的运动,一般认为是大脑皮质的基底节神经细胞病变所致。

■Since evolution has given rise to few,if any, purposeless physiological response,it is logical to assume that crying has one or more functions that enhance survival.

译文：因为进化很少会产生无目的的反应，所以在逻辑上可以认为哭泣在提高生存方面有一个或多个作用。

■I’m of great romance in thinking so, like falling leaves in a golden fall street, purposeless, swaying, too light to stay a realistic image beneath the artist’s sentimental hand.

轻薄的落叶在画家多情的手下，在画纸上， 也留不住一丝写实的痕迹。但又想去，越发感到徒劳， 想到了落地的残叶随着秋风翻滚在满是落叶的大 道上。

■Marx died in desperation, as all Satanists die. He wrote to Engels on March 25, 1883, "How purposeless and empty life is, but how desired!"

马克思在绝望中死去，就像所有撒旦教徒一样。他于1883年3月25日写信给恩格斯道：“生命是多么的无目标和空虚，但我多么渴望它啊！”

■And she never stops calling. (George nods - he knows exactly what Jerry's talking about) And it's these meaningless, purposeless, blather calls.

（乔治点头，他了解杰瑞说的话）还有这些无聊的、漫无边际的废话电话。