to no purpose

常见例句

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
没有任何目的的诚实真烦人。
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
人的一生仅仅是时间长河之一粟，让我们好好享受这仅有的一生，让它充满意义。
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A pointed objection to George Bush’s policies is not just that they crossed a moral line but that they crossed it to no purpose.
一项指向乔治亚•布什政策的异议并不在于这些政策违背了道德原则，而在于它们漫无目的地违反了它。

" I have no purpose," he said, "either directly or indirectly, to interfere with slavery where it exists.
Eight features of literary modernism: An obsession with the idea of art's autonomy, the idea that art is its own law, that it responds to no other laws, that it has no other purpose than its own purposes.
第一，对艺术意志自由问题的困扰,对艺术是自身的法律，它不响应其他准则,它只有本身这唯一的目的，也就是说。
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Serfs who are compelled to work the land, or in some places even slaves, well, they have no incentive, put aside the question even of capacity, to invest capital for the purpose of improving the size and quality of the their crops, their trees, their vines.
那些被强迫耕种土地的农奴,或者是那些在其他地方直接成为奴隶的人,刨除能动性因素,农场主们,没有任何理由投资钱财,去改善他们农作物,果树和葡萄,的种植规模和品质
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To no purpose, it seems.
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Big wastes of power to no real purpose and fixable almost effortlessly if anyone wanted to bother.
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As they read, the first-rate cast gets more and more physical, ending in a kind of mild anarchy to no real purpose.
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