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名詞

no use (uncountable)

1. Condition of being pointless, useless, not worth doing, especially because it is not likely to succeed.
   • 1949 June 8, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four‎, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, Part I, Chapter I:

     It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours.

2. (colloquial) No point or advantage.

   No use crying over spilt milk.

   There is no use in studying medicine if there are too many doctors already.

   Explaining things to you is of no use because you never listen.

   That clock isn't any use: it keeps losing time.

   It's no use you/your apologizing now: it is too late.

   • 1962, Bob Dylan, Don't Think Twice, It's All Right:

     Well it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
     If e'en you don't know by now
     An' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
     It don't ever do somehow.