Cognitive behavioural therapy, which teaches people to bypass unhelpful thoughts, has few negative connotations.

“认知行为疗法”能教人们绕开那些无益想法，这种疗法几乎没什么潜在负面影响。

These tools can help you win every argument not in the unhelpful sense of beating your opponents but in the better sense of learning about the issues that divide people.

这些方法能助你赢得任何争论——是从打败对手这种毫无助益上获胜，而是从更好上获胜，了解使人们产生分歧问题。

Arguments over which sources of clean electricity we should use are unhelpful.

争论该使用哪些清洁能源发电毫无助益。

Be sure to replace unhelpful thoughts or ideas with better ones.

一定要把无用想法换成更优想法。

Maybe the person was rude to them or unhelpful in some way.

也许那个人对他们很无礼，也肯提供助。

That's unhelpful or is it we can make?

这没用，还是我们可以做呀？

So it's not that understanding emotions is bad or unhelpful.

所以理解情绪是件坏事，也是没用。

This is The English We Speak from BBC Learning English and we're finding out about the phrase 'to give someone the runaround', which means 'to deliberately behave in an unhelpful way'.

这里是BBC地道英语，我们正在讨论" to give someone the runaround" 思，它是指" 故忙" 。

I called the police, and they were totally unhelpful.

我老早打过了 可他们什么忙都上。

For better or for worse, most pieces of life advice are as vague and circumstantial as life itself, but that doesn't mean these kernels of wisdom are useless or unhelpful.

管建议是好是坏，多数人生建议如同生活本身一样含糊清，但这并代表这些智慧核心毫无用处。

The ensuing reports said the Church of England had a profound and unhelpful culture.

随后报告称英格兰教堂文化深厚但无用。

It's tempting to think we should always try to avoid sadness and frustration, but no emotion is inherently good or bad — they're either helpful or unhelpful depending on the situation.

你很有可能会觉得我们总是得避免悲伤和沮丧，但是情绪本质上是没有好坏——只是在同场合下它们可能是有益或无益。

" Oh, " said Hagrid, with a most unhelpful glance towards the corner where Harry, Ron and Hermione stood hidden, " oh, tha'was...was Fang. He broke a mug. So I had ter use this one instead."

“哦，”海格要命地朝哈利、罗恩和赫敏站地方瞥了一眼，“哦，那是——牙牙，它打碎了茶杯，所以我只好用这一只。”

Tomatoes with traits that help them survive are more likely to live a nice, long life and pass those traits on to their offspring, while tomatoes with unhelpful traits are more likely to die before they have a chance to reproduce.

具有有助于其生存性状西红柿更有可能活得更久，并将这些性状遗传给后代，而具有无益性状西红柿更有可能在有机会繁殖之前死亡。

Witty statements are usually in response to someone's unhelpful remarks or behaviors, and the intent is to untangle and clarify the issue by emphasizing its absurdities.

妙语通常是对某人无益言论或行为回应，目是通过强调问题荒谬性来理清和澄清问题。

But he was critical at the name given to the operation by the Shia militias which focus on a grandson of a prophet, particularly important to Shias. That was unhelpful, said Colonel Warren.

但是他批评了什叶派对此次行动命名，这是一位对什叶派非常重要预言家孙子名字。华伦上校表示，这项举措没有任何助。

So, the headline is saying that some naps — shorter ones — are helpful. While others — longer ones — are unhelpful.

那么，标题是说小睡——较短小睡——于我们有益。而另一些——较长小睡——无益健康。

Comparing ourselves to the best pianist, for example, may be discouraging and unhelpful, so we might compare ourselves to lesser versions of the ideal instead.

例如，将自己与最好钢琴家进行比较，可能会让人十分沮丧，而且毫无助，所以我们可能会将自己与理想情况中较低版本进行比较。

The second unhelpful by-product of the debate about managers and leaders is that it tends to separate people into one camp or the other.

关于经理和领导之辩第二个无用副产品是，它往往会把人分入非此即彼阵营。

There are peer reviewers who do unhelpful things, like encouraging you with positive comments without helping you see where your draft falls short.

有些同行评阅人会做一些无益事情，比如用积极评论鼓励你，却没有你找出草稿足之处。