fool's errand

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Micro-optimizing the steps of an inefficient algorithm is a fool's errand.
對低效算法步驟進(jìn)行細(xì)微的優(yōu)化是徒勞無益的事情。
Cliff Johnson's 1987 puzzle game The Fool's Errand was a lo-res masterpiece.
克里夫約翰遜1987年的字謎游戲《傻瓜的使命》是一個(gè)低分辨率巨作。
You forced me into visiting him last year, and promised, if I went to see him, he should marry one of my daughters. But it ended in nothing, and I will not be sent on a fool's errand again.
不去，不去，去年你硬逼著我去看他，說什么只要我去看了他，他就會挑中我們的某一個(gè)女兒做太太，可是結(jié)果只落得一場空，我再也不干這種傻事了。

Until you're a proficient reader of a language, writing in our language is a fool's errand.
你只有成為一個(gè)熟練的讀者，才有可能成為一個(gè)好的作者。
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