Having talked as much and as meaninglessly as it was necessary to preserve the decorum, Nekhludoff arose and went over to Maslenikoff.

聂赫留朵夫为了保持礼貌说了那么多又毫无意义的话，就站起来走到马斯列尼科夫身边。

Weber worried that the systems that rationalization built will leave behind the ideas that built them, and that they’ll simply roll on forever, meaninglessly, under their own momentum.

韦伯担心， 合理化建立的系统会抛弃构建它们的思想，它们会在自己的动力下永远、毫无意义地滚动下去。