Irrelevance

(noun.) the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand.

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• For a moment Archer fancied that Mr. Letterblair must have told her of his coming; but the irrelevance of her next remark made him change his mind. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• They will help us to understand better the astonishing irrelevance of the political life of this period to the realities that rose about it. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• She broke off, still twinkling at him, and asked, with the casual irrelevance of old age: Now, why in the world didn't you marry my little Ellen? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• That he should be regarded as a suitor to herself would have seemed to her a ridiculous irrelevance. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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