This reinforces to me the pointlessness of what I’m thinking.

这能够提示我：现在所想的是毫无意义的。

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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。

youdao

The pointlessness and sheer waste of effort in these school reports is quite something.

在这些成绩单上所作的工作毫无意义，完全是一种浪费。

youdao

GM's descent into pointlessness has occurred despite its status as one of the U.S.'--and the world's--most heavily subsidized companies.

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The world remembers the Great War for the supreme pointlessness with which it slaughtered an entire generation of British, French, German and other combatants.

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Also the hermits of third-century Egypt, the so-called daemon meridianus, when their prayers were stultified by pointlessness and tedium and a longing for violent death.

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