Don't say I am utterly useless because I have been so useless to you, so damnably useless in the past. I see all that, my wretched uselessness to you through all these years. I am seeing it now while I am speaking. All the time I'm seeing it. What you have deserved and what you have had!"
He stopped, then he said again:
"What you have deserved and what you have had from me! And from--it was so--it was the same long ago, not here. But till to-day you didn't know that. I was wrong.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
The long-bow and gunpowder, we have seen, made the peasant as important as the noble in war. The long-bow made the coat of mail useless, gunpowder made the castle useless--the defence of the privileges of the Middle Ages departed.英文原著 · 《A Short History of Wales》
Let me kiss you, dear!" Useless to plead with her; useless to kiss her; she only reiterated the words, "So thirsty! so thirsty!" Emily raised the poor tortured body with a patient caution which spared it pain, and put the glass to her aunt's lips. She drank the lemonade to the last drop. Refreshed for the moment, she spoke again--spoke to the visionary servant of her delirious fancy, while she rested in Emily's arms. "For God's sake, take care how you answer if she questions you. If _she_ knew what _we_ know! Are men ever ashamed? the vile woman!英文原著 · 《I SAY NO》
He recognized me, on his side, the instant I appeared. "Oh, Lord!" he cried in tones of horror, and ran round the corner of the terrace as if my eyes had been mad bulls in close pursuit of him. By this time it is, I fear, useless for me to set myself up as a discreet person in emergencies. Another woman might have controlled herself. I burst into fits of laughter. Freddy and the girls joined me. For the time, it was plainly useless to pursue the business of education. I shut up Shakespeare, and allowed--no, let me tell the truth, encouraged--the children to talk about Mr.英文原著 · 《LITTLE NOVELS》
This well-meant remonstrance was completely thrown away. Beaucourt's despair was deaf to every entreaty that Dick had addressed to him. "Thank you with all my heart," he said. "You don't know her as I do. She is one of the very few women who mean No when they say No. Useless, Dick--useless!"英文原著 · 《LITTLE NOVELS》
Meantime, our horses on these ugly rocks Useless, and worse than useless with their clatter-- Leave them behind, with one or two in charge, And softly, softly, softly.英文原著 · 《Life Is A Dream》
Now throw away all of your useless garbage into this trash can.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
And I'll throw my "useless garbage" in the dumpster on the way out.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Maybe she can help me look for the test, 'cause you're useless.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
No, you can't saddle me with that useless douche bag.美剧 · 《Billions》