毫无意义

It was an absolutely senseless act of violence.

这是毫无意义的暴力行为。

He asked them all kinds of pointless questions, stalling for time.

向们提了各种毫无意义的问题来间。

There’s no sense in taking unnecessary risks.

做不必要的冒险毫无意义。

The committee brushed off his enquiries with meaningless promises.

委员会用毫无意义的许诺来搪塞的要求。

He spent his life in pointlessly tiresome drudgery.

的生都在做毫无意义的烦人的苦差事。

I think, in part, we mythologize sacrifice, ennoble it with layer upon layer of redemptive they-did-not-suffer-and-die-in-vain meaning, because it enables us to bear the pain of loss.

我想，我们神话牺牲者，给们批救赎的外衣，认为们的苦难和死亡并非毫无意义而更显尊贵，在某种程度只是为了让我们能承受失去们的痛苦。