fool's errand

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Micro-optimizing the steps of an inefficient algorithm is a fool's errand.
对低效算法步骤进行细微的优化是徒劳无益的事情。
Cliff Johnson's 1987 puzzle game The Fool's Errand was a lo-res masterpiece.
克里夫约翰逊1987年的字谜游戏《傻瓜的使命》是一个低分辨率巨作。
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，去年你硬逼着我去看他，说什么只要我去看了他，他就会挑中我们的某一个女儿做太太，可是结果只落得一场空，我再也不干这种傻事了。

Until you're a proficient reader of a language, writing in our language is a fool's errand.
你只有成为一个熟练的读者，才有可能成为一个好的作者。
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