adj.無用的；無益的

I "trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries". 我“哭天天不應(yīng)”。

He robs himself that spends a bootless gridf. 無益的悲傷只是掠奪自身.

A bootless 4-year-old enjoys his ride on a swing pushed by his grandfather at a park in Chatham, Canada. 在加拿大查坦的一座公園里，一名光腳的四歲男童讓阿公推著秋千樂在其中。

The cry brought him skulking back to his master and a blunt bootless kick sent him unscathed across a spit of sand, crouched in flight. 這么一嚷，狗就怯懦地回到主人跟前，它被沒穿靴子的腳猛踢了一下，雖沒傷著，卻倦縮著逃到沙灘另一頭。

Then the starving, bootless, ragged, stupid wretches fell down and worshipped the System. 于是那些赤腳的，挨餓的，衣衫襤褸的，愚昧無知的可憐蟲就跪倒地下，對這個(gè)制度頂禮膜拜。

By heavens it is pitiful, the bootless love of women for children in Vanity Fair. 好可憐啊，在“名利