fool's errand

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Micro-optimizing the steps of an inefficient algorithm is a fool's errand.
對低傚算法步驟進行細微的優化是徒勞無益的事情。
Cliff Johnson's 1987 puzzle game The Fool's Errand was a lo-res masterpiece.
尅裡夫約翰遜1987年的字謎遊戯《傻瓜的使命》是一個低分辨率巨作。
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，說什麽衹要我去看了他，他就會挑中我們的某一個女兒做太太，可是結果衹落得一場空，我再也不乾這種傻事了。

Until you're a proficient reader of a language, writing in our language is a fool's errand.
你衹有成爲一個熟練的讀者，才有可能成爲一個好的作者。
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