empty exercise

ˈɛmpti ˈɛksərsaɪz
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Translation of empty exercise from English into Chinese

Noun

mindless routine

action done mechanically, without real purpose, result, or involvement
形式主义 走过场 空洞的练习 无意义的练习
  • Filling out the survey felt like an empty exercise, so he quit.填那份调查表让他觉得只是走过场,于是他就放弃了。
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Synonyms and analogies of empty exercise in English

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Examples of empty exercise in a sentence

  • He considered the safety drills an empty exercise without proper equipment.

empty exercise: Examples and translations in context

Without the parallel provision of sufficient resources, the transfer of cases from the State level will be an empty exercise.

如果不能同时提供充足资源,则从国家一级移交案件的工作将毫无效果。

The Special Rapporteur wishes to state that any declaration on the right to information excluding exhaustive references to that right, as well as other basic human rights, is an empty exercise of international relations.

特别报告员希望表示,关于获取信息权的任何声明,如果不充分提及这一权利及其他基本人权,都是国际关系中的无意义行为。

It would be a disgrace if this major advance became an exercise in empty rhetoric.

这一重大进展如果口惠而实不至,无疑是一种耻辱。

Without those linkages, the whole endeavour risked becoming an empty bureaucratic exercise with little value as a management tool; an improved capacity to collect cost information would facilitate matters.

没有这些联系,所有努力很可能会成为空设的官僚做法,没有多少作为管理工具的价值;改善收集费用信息的能力将促进各项工作。

On each of these occasions we pointed out that the ineffectiveness of this forum is unacceptable and that we cannot continue to allocate enormous human, financial, professional and political resources to an institution that does not fulfil its mandate and that, on the contrary, indulges in an exercise in empty diplomacy.

在每个场合我们都指出,本论坛效率低下的状况是不能接受的,我们不能继续拨出巨大的人力、财力、专业和政治资源给一个不履行其任务、相反还沉溺于空头外交的机构。

As the Committee has stated in the past, this linkage is an essential element of the results-based budgeting concept; without it, the whole exercise risks becoming an empty bureaucratic exercise with little value as a management tool, rather than a meaningful, functioning instrument for strategic planning, and requests for post and non-post resources are often asserted, rather than justified programmatically.

正如委员会已指出,这一挂钩是成果预算编制概念的一个基本要素。 没有这种挂钩,整个活动就会面临风险,可能成为空洞的官僚活动,很少有管理工具的价值,而没有成为一种有意义和管用的战略规划工具,另外,调拨员额和非员额资源的请求通常是武断的,而不是按照方案说明理由。

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