For all practical purposes, it was useless. 实际上它毫无用处。
The equator is an imaginary line. 赤道是一条实际上并不存在的线。
With such an income as that you should be above the world. 你的收入既然如此,你应该注重精神生活。
So it is business as usual and that means the immediate task of gaining the upperhand over Wenger's team at Cardiff. 既然如此,一切照旧,是时候为在卡迪夫对阿森纳的比赛上赢得一些主动权了。