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Dal mito di Sisifo, in cui si parla di una persona impegnata in un'impresa assolutamente inutile per l'eternita', deriva la parola "sisifeo", che indica un tipo di compito che sembra molto arduo e anche del tutto inutile.
From the story of Sisyphus, in which we have a person who's engaged in an absolutely pointless endeavour for eternity, we got the modern English word of "Sisyphean", which describes some kind of a task that seems very arduous and also entirely pointless.
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