irrelevance

Many Bush administration officials seem to view the UN either as an irrelevance or as a dangerous constraint.

在许多布什政府官员的眼里，联合国似乎或者与美国毫不相干，或者是对美国的一种约束。

This apparent irrelevance also relates back to the fact that the basic means of producing food and its consumption are distinct.

这种明显的不相关也涉及回到一个事实，即生产食品，其消费的基本手段是不同的。

Far from sinking into irrelevance, desktop computer browsers have continued to evolve and become even more integral to how we use the Web.

远自被认为无关紧要，桌面电脑浏览器不断发展变成我们怎么利用互联网的一个整体的一部分。

If a news reporter dared to begin a story with such a historic irrelevance he would be fired on the spot.

如果某位新闻记者敢以如此离题的历史事件开始一篇报道，会被当场解雇的。

Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance . It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.

不管是你得到的或是你欠别人的，可你的财产、名誉和权势也都会变成和你毫不相干的东西。

That part of my life may have been weird, but it was not an irrelevance.

我生命中的这段时光或许有些奇怪，但它并非毫无疑义。

Disclosing the pay of a few bankers, who in theory will remain anonymous, is an irrelevance, except perhaps for them.

公开几个理论上会保持匿名的银行家的薪资，可能对于他们不过是无关紧要的。

AS RECENTLY as last October the International Monetary Fund seemed to be sliding towards terminal irrelevance.

直到最近的去年十月份，国际货币基金组织似乎还在逐渐而不可挽回地滑向丧失其重要性的深渊。

Indeed, some will argue that failure, or at least irrelevance, is inevitable.

事实上，有些人认为谈判破裂，或至少陷入僵局，是不可避免的。

So the gains from labour arbitrage are starting to shrink, in some cases to the point of irrelevance, according to a new study by BCG.

所以，从劳动力套利的方法中获取的利益已经开始收缩，根据波士顿咨询集团最新的研究，在某种情况下已经到了没有利润可图的境地。

Candidates will be penalized for irrelevance if the response is off-topic and is not written as full, connected texts.

如果文不对题，候选人将被扣分，特别是答案离谱走题，或断断续续，没有写完。

In Bellos's new proposal, translation instead "presupposes . . . the irrelevance of the ineffable to acts of communication. "

贝洛斯的新理论提出，恰恰相反，翻译的“先决条件就是……不可译论与沟通行为无关。”

The main regional body, the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation, is an irrelevance.

作为主要地区组织的南亚地区合作组织几乎无关轻重。

But where people on the very edge of survival are concerned, romanticism over the "noble savage" fades to irrelevance.

但对于处于生存边缘的人们而言，“高尚的野蛮人”的浪漫主义褪色，变得毫不相干。

Senior American officials have warned that unless European countries spend more on defense, they risk "collective military irrelevance. "

美国高级官员曾警告，除非欧洲国家增加国防开支，否则它们面临着“军事重要性集体消失”的风险。

The threat now is of irrelevance in a world that belongs to the Pacific rather than the Atlantic.

在这个属于太平洋（而非大西洋）的世界上，目前的威胁是无足轻重的。

They say that G. M. is a fundamentally broken company , one that will continue its drift toward irrelevance .

他们说，大树的根基已经损坏，如果坚持下去只会越来越与时代脱节。

It would take more than Iran cheating on the treaty, however, to nudge the NPT into the abyss of irrelevance.

然而，伊朗违背条约比把NPT推入不受中肯的深渊付出的代价更大。

US power is being challenged across the Middle East; and Europe seems intent on irrelevance.

美国的势力在中东各地受到挑战；欧洲则似乎想让自己不相干。

Now these measures "are becoming not just an irrelevance but a distraction" , he says.

他说，如今这些措施“不仅变得无关紧要，而且分散了注意力”。