Omit dull and ineffective generalities and make sure you give concrete examples.

避免概括性的用之词，给出具体的实例。

As Bruce Lee once said, “Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”

“调整有用的东西，剔除用的东西，再加上你自己独有的东西。”

Oftentimes, these are artistic sides of us that our environment may see as useless.

通常，这些我们的艺术方面，我们的环境可能会认用的。

He directed the wasted water into shallow basins where it froze, and was stored until the spring.

他把用的水导流进水坑，让水在里面结冰，再把这些水储存到春天。

It has also provided us with the opportunity to spend hours fixing software glitches on our personal computers or filling our heads with useless information from the Internet.

技术发展还向我们提供机会，在个人电脑上一连几小时处理软件障，或把因特网上那些用的信息塞进自己的大脑。

Plus, getting the whole team together for a brainstorming session is...pretty much useless.

另外，让整个团队集中在一起做头脑风暴… … 几毫用处的。

This tip isn't actually really applicable to fiction since there are few parts that don't contribute to the overall story and they can be hard to identify.

这个建议实际上不太适用于小说，因几有什么内容对于理解整个事有用的，并且你很难辨识出用的内容。

Then, I'd say focus on signal over noise.

接着我要说的第四点，就专注于有用的信号而不嘈杂用的声音。

It erases the belief that growing old means growing useless.

它消除了变老意味着变得用的信念。

It's no use trying to argue with you when you fly into a fury.

当你愤怒时，设法与你争论用的。

Doctors remove the useless lens from the eye.

医生将用的晶状体从眼睛中取出。

We don't remember every single detail of our past because our brains have a limited capacity and we replace useless memories, like middle school locker combinations, with relevant information.

我们不会记得过去的每一个细节。因我们的大脑的容量有限，我们会把用的回忆用相关的信息替换掉，比如说中学时候的书柜密码。

From the moment Joanna discovered she'd pumped out not a useful male heir but a useless girl, she treated Catherine less like a human and more like a receptacle for all her disappointments.

从乔安娜发现她生出来的不一个有用的男性继承人，而一个用的女孩的那一刻起，她就不再把凯瑟琳当人看待，而更像一个容纳她所有失望出气筒。

China used to accept 55% of the world's plastic and paper scrap – another word for unwanted waste - or in other words, rubbish.

中国过去接收了全世界55%的塑料和废纸——指代用垃圾的另一个单词——或者换句话说就垃圾。

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

一定要把用的想法换成更优的想法。

Okay the last tip is to avoid really unhelpful phrases.

好的，最后一个技巧避免使用用的短语。

This can help you understand what worked and what didn't.

这可以帮助你了解什么有用的，什么用的。

Silent synapses are, however, useless unless they can be switched on at the appropriate moment.

然而，如果不能在适当的时候被激活，沉默突触就用的。

The teapot began to be treated as old and useless from that moment.

从那时起，茶壶便成了旧的和毫用处的废物。

Imagine wanting a junky old rotten egg! he muttered.

“想一想吧，连一个毫用处的老坏蛋也要！”