Minister Adams was better received than most nullities because he made no noise.

亚当斯部长比大多数无用的人更受欢迎， 因为他从不发出声音。

If you like an alliterative phrase—the knights of nowhere battling the nabobs of nullity—by all means throw it in and see how it looks on paper.

如果你喜欢某句押头韵的短语一(乌有地武士大战无其人富豪）一不管三七二十一，先把这句话记下来，看看白纸黑字写出来是个什么样子。

But it was, of course, clear that unless this meant a higher price for work per hour, it would be a mere nullity, and that the masters, unless forced, would reduce it to that.

但是，当然，很明显，除非这意味着每小时的工作价格更高，否则它只会是无效的，除非被迫，否则工匠们会把它降低到那个水平。

Day after day had passed; her union had remained unsecured, and the idea of its nullity had gradually ceased to be strange to her; till it became of little account beside her bold resolve for the young man's sake.

一天又一天过去了；她的结合一直没有保障，她也逐渐不再对结合无效的想法感到陌生。直到除了她为了这个年轻人的勇敢决心之外，这一切都变得微不足道了。