In 2006, he told a gathering of reporters that his proudest moment as a journalist was the night he delivered his editorial about the futility of the Vietnam War.

2006年他在一个记者聚会上说他作为记者最自豪的时刻就是播报关于越战徒劳无益社论的那个晚上。

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At it's most benign, there's no more than an apathy and weariness that makes it difficult to go about life's daily business; and at its worst, a feeling of meaningless, of futility, of pain.

最温和的时候，冷漠和倦怠的感觉让你很难去继续日常事务，最糟糕的时候，有一种毫无意义，徒劳无用且痛苦悲伤的感觉。

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That is why much of Mr Cheney's speech was a polemic about the futility of weapons inspection.

这就是为什么切尼的讲话大部分要论证武器检查的无效性的原因。

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The movie seems to be less about liberation than about futility.

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I'm uncertain about the gender reassignments, but there is no doubt that the updating does its job, elegantly transforming this play about wealth and artistic patronage, about the futility of buying friendship, about pandering to the prosperous, into a paradigm of what Karl Marx saw in his 1844 philosophical treatise as the polluting power of money.

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