汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 无用功
无用功 (無用功)
useless work / idle work / a fool's errand
() wú yòng gōng
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

你的朝拜会是无用功

Your pilgrimage may end up being fruitless.

今天我们来看攻略#1:无用功不是功

Today we focus on Gospel #1: Pseudo-work does not equal work

但是现在预测委员会的下一步棋基本上就是无用功

But predicting the committee's next move now is next to impossible.

这次只是一次相对小的做无用功的争论,只是关于进化树上靠近鸟类起源的小嫩枝的争论。

This is an argument over a relatively small rearrangement of some of the twigs on the evolutionary tree close to the origin of birds.

把学习简化成一个由具体行动组成的计划,让你能够精简你的工作并得到更高的学习效率,同时避免做无用功,消除罪恶感。

Reducing your academic work to a concrete plan made up of concrete actions allows you to streamline and gain efficiency, while avoiding pseudowork and guilt.

可是后来你说你不爱他了,虽然没有再次拒绝我,却又和另一个男生亲密了起来,当我给你一杯奶菜转向他的手时,我是欲哭无泪,难道说自己一直在做无用功吗?

But later you said you did not love him anymore and although without turning me down, you got close with another boy. When the milk tea I gave you ended up in his hand, I was crying without tears.