That it's a dead loss having a Cabinet Minister for an MP.

有个内阁大臣做议员根本没用。

Last night, I went to a party, it was a dead loss.

昨晚，我去参加了一个聚会，真是毫无意义。

I bought this pen the other day, it was a dead loss.

这支笔是我前几天买的，毫无价值。

It cost me an arm and a leg and it was a dead loss.

它花了我一大笔钱，但毫无价值。

" To be a dead loss" . " To be a dead loss" means that something is worthless. Completely worthless, a waste of time. Right?

“毫无意义”。To be a dead loss 是指某物毫无价值。完全没有价值，浪费时间。

He simply works to keep his looms going, for a loom that stands still is a dead loss.

他只是努力让他的织布机运转起来， 因为一台静止不动的织布机是一个死的损失。

It was a dead loss to be honest, and so Tom decided to call it a day and he let the consultant go.

老实说，这是一个巨大的损失，所以汤姆决定就到此为止，他解雇了顾问。

There was nobody there, there was no food there, was no music, just wasn't a very good atmosphere. It was a dead loss.

那里没有人，没有食物，没有音乐，气氛不是很好。真是毫无意义。

When the wheat crop failed, he threshed the straw at a dead loss to demonstrate how little grain there was, and thus prove his case against Providence.

当小麦歉收时， 他把稻草打得一塌糊涂， 以证明谷物是多么的少， 从而证明他对普罗维登斯的指控。

You've put lots of ideas out there, but you know it's not really working, it's a dead loss, it's time to stop, it's time to call it a day.

你已经提出了很多想法，但你知道这些想法并没有真正起作用，毫无意义，是时候停止了，是时候结束了。

He would have been gratified to talk with Knight as in past times, and saw as a dead loss to himself that, to save the woman who cared nothing for him, he was deliberately throwing away his friend.

如果能像过去那样与奈特交谈，他会很高兴，但他认为，为了拯救这个对他毫不关心的女人，他故意抛弃了他的朋友，这对他自己来说是一个致命的损失。