无关紧要的

This was not a problem for Baer, but he wanted to go beyond his original assignment and incorporate some kind of game into the set.

虽然他尚未对所要设计的游戏胸有成竹，但是这已经无关紧要了，因为经理已无情地否定了这一灵感。

Be that as it may,your forgiveness is irrelevant.

就算是那样，你的宽恕也无关紧要

Sometimes the neighbour's pigeons land on my windowledge Cooing softly Where the great poplar at the window has somehow grown beyond the fourth-floor roof They skim round its crown and back The sunlight on their fluffy feathers Alive day by day I keep coming indoors empty-handed And throwing book and jacket on the bed As the days hurry by I can bring scarcely anything home Even after days away Only you remain and the little room Living day by day We have grown used By an unspoken pact to the room's breadth A pair of pigeons cooing softly on the windowledge Which at many instants belong to us Day by day Dust that falls on book spines gradually yellows Perhaps it is otherwise That life, if it does, provides I know that the unwitting request is not excessive And that summer turns to autumn Perhaps fallen leaves will swirl after a night of rain It does not mean a return to green shade deep in sunlight A house-cleaning when leisure affords Feelings may come on latent even as Irrelevancies are spoken softly The instant when a first trembling on the lips teaches you happiness Lasts till the end of life A request always voiced unwittingly

有时候，邻家的鸽子落在我的窗台上咕咕地轻啼窗口的大杨树不知不觉间已高过了四层楼的屋顶它们轻绕那些树冠又飞回来阳光在蓬松的羽毛上那么温柔生命日复一日我往往空着手从街上回来把书和上衣掷在床上日子过得匆匆忙忙我时常不能带回来什么即使离家数日只留下你和这小小的屋子生活日复一日面对无声无息的默契我们已习惯了彼此间的宽容一对鸽子在窗台上咕咕地轻啼他们在许多瞬间属于我们日复一日灰尘落在书脊上渐渐变黄如果生活时时在给予那也许是另一回事我知道，那无意间提出的请求并不过份我知道，夏日正转向秋天也许一场夜雨过后就会落叶纷飞不是说再回到阳光下幽深的绿荫日子需要闲遐的时候把家收拾干净，即使轻声述说些无关紧要的事情感也会在其间潜潜走过当唇际间最初的战栗使你感知了幸福这一瞬已延伸到了生命的尽头而那些请求都是无意间说出的

4Her age is beside the point: the question is, can she do the job?

她的年龄与无关紧要，问题在于她是否能胜任这项工作？

If I do not return,|my burial is of no import.

如果我回不来了，我的葬礼无关紧要

Heidegger's acerbic descriptions of "idle talk" or Gerede is a well known point in case: Idle talk and pointless chatter are from the philosopher's point of view a kind of degeneration of real or authentic communication; instead of a common exploration of the truth, we engage in a repetitive exchange of commonsensical trivialities.

海德格尔对"闲谈"的尖刻描述可以作为一个很好的例子：从哲学家的观点来看，闲聊和无关紧要的闲谈是一种真实的或本真的交流的退化，其中，我们不是在从事对真理的共同探究，而是在重复性地交流一些常识性的鸡毛蒜皮的东西。

Class matters les s : the fact that the Tories are gaining popularity led by an Old Etonian is, strangely, a sign of progress.

学堂无关紧要：奇怪的是，事实上，保守党是靠伊顿公学赢得声望，这一点暗示着进步。

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

从审慎的角度而言，成立多年的政府是不应当由于无关紧要的和一时的原因而予以更换的。过去所有的经验业已说明，任何不幸，只要尚能忍受，人类还是情愿忍受的，而不是废除他们久已习惯的政府形势，来为自己求得公正。

A notion of yourself, of the sort of a something that you suspect to inhabit and partially to control your flesh and blood body, you will encounter a walking bundle of superfluities: and when you mentally have put aside the extraneous things—your garments and your members and your body, and your acquired habits and your appetites and your inherited traits and your prejudices, and all other appurtenances which considered separately you recognize to be no integral part of you,—there seems to remain in those pearl-colored brain-cells, wherein is your ultimate lair, very little save a faculty for receiving sensations, of which you know the larger portion to be illusory.

当你从精神上搁置那些无关紧要的东西，包括服装、朋友、身体、已经养成了的习惯、饮食口味、与生俱来的性格、对事物的偏见以及所有你认为并不是自己不可或缺的身外之物，那些珍珠色的脑细胞仍然会存留下来，那里便是你最终的栖身之所。微不足道的脑细胞令你拥有接受、感知的能力，而其中大部分的感觉你都清楚是虚幻的。

Thus the statute of king Edward IV,4 which forbad the fine gentlemen of those times to wear pikes upon their shoes or boots of more than two inches in length, was law that favored of oppression; because, however ridiculous the fashion than in use might appear, the restraining it by pecuniary penalties could serve no purpose of common utility.

不，就算是法律本身，无论它们是否经过我们的同意，如果它们在无关紧要的事务中管理和限制我们的行为，而没有任何有益的可期待的目的，便是破坏自由的法律：反之，如果任何公共利益能够以遵守这样的戒律而形成的话，对我们私人意愿的控制——在一两个特别的方面——将有益于维护我们在其它更重要的方面的一般的自由；只有通过支持这种社会状态，才能保证我们的独立。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。