errand

I was about to leave the house on an errand, and my husband was getting ready for a dental appointment.

我正要离家跑一躺腿，我的丈夫正准备去看牙医。

It was impossible to say how much he should be gratified by being employed on such an errand.

若是能让我去办这件事，我真说不出该有多高兴。

If I ask her to run an errand for me, she says I'm exploiting her.

如果我要她为我办件事，她说我在剥削她。

In an interview with The Atlantic magazine, the top U. S. diplomat accused China "of trying to stop history, which is a fool's errand. "

在接受《大西洋》月刊的采访是，这位美国高级外交官称中国“妄图改变历史”。

Gibbs: Jack, it's a fool's errand. Well, you know better than me the tales of the Black Pearl.

杰克：我想去寻找黑珍珠。我知道黑珍珠在哪儿。我会找到它的。

It was a death wish, a fool's errand, and he had never courted death or been a fool.

这是一次死亡之旅，一次傻瓜差事，而他，从未被判死刑，也从来没有当过傻瓜。

Did you know this morning, now, that you were coming out on this errand?

你是今天早晨才知道你要出来办这件差事的吗？

Then I asked him to run an errand downtown he said his feet hurt.

然后我要他去市中心办点事儿，他却说脚疼。

The young man Freud was inexperienced with women and I think Martha was gonna be the princess and presider and he would be her light errand.

年轻的弗洛伊德对女人还没有经验，我想玛莎肯定会被视为公主或主席，而他则会成为她的差使。

You did not know yourself when you dwelt alone , and there was no crying of an errand when the wind ran from the hither to the shore. .

当你独处的时候，你并不了解自己，风从这里吹向遥远的海岸，满院一声急切的呼唤。

"I'd just say I was on some important errand for the Receiver. I'd say it was all your fault that I was out after hours, " Jonas teased.

“我会说我在为记忆接受者执行某种重要的使命。我会说让我在那麽晚还在外面都是你造成的问题，”乔纳斯取笑著。

What errand did Serena have to run? I don't know, but she took her file with her.

什么事情瑟琳娜这么急？我不知道，但她带上了她的文件。

So I'd agree with you. A fool's errand, no doubt about it.

所以我同意你的话，我这些举动还真是愚蠢行为，毫无疑问。

If neighbors called, Eugene found himself obliged to leave on an urgent errand.

如果邻居来访，叶甫盖尼总会发现自己有紧急任务要去处理而不得不离开。

So that day she went on her errand of mercy, and knocked at the door of Toad's cell.

于是有一天，她就敲开蟾蜍囚室的门，去做行善的事。

"One hopes that these things are useful, " he said, "but it can be a fool's errand to try to detect any immediate use for them. "

“人们希望这些东西是有用的，”他说，“但是，试图探究这些交流的直接效用是傻瓜才做的事情。”

In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she was charged.

在那种仰慕当中，她忘了一切，连别人叫她做的事也忘了。

Captain: I apologize, emissary, but the prince is away on an errand. What brings you to this desolate place?

卫队队长：有失远迎，使者大人，但王子殿下还有些公事没回来。是什么风把您吹到这片荒芜阴冷的地方来的？

Trying to single out financiers from entrepreneurs is a fool's errand: you will end up hurting both.

试图从企业家中挑选出金融家不愚蠢的：最终会两败俱伤。

One summer afternoon in 2002, Mr. Wu went out on an errand and saw a banner stretched across the main road downtown.

2002夏天的一个下午，吴先生出差看到一个标语在镇上的公路上横挂着。