徒劳

例句与用法

It is always futile to try to hold back the progress of history .
要想阻止历史潮流是徒劳的。
To break him in by severity would be a useless attempt .
用严厉手段来驯服他，准是徒劳的尝试。
Day after day she waited in vain for him to telephone her .
日复一日，她徒劳地等待他打电话给她。
"it is no use, john clay," said holmes blandly .
福尔摩斯无动于衷地说：“约翰克莱，那是徒劳的。”
Shame, compunction, sense of futility flooded his whole being .
差耻，内疾和徒劳的感觉浸满他整个的人。
It was useless to try to "stabilize the dying reactionary situation. "
试图稳定垂死的反动局面是徒劳的。
Her love was a fire playing ineffectually over a rock of basalt .
她的爱，如同一团火，徒劳地烧炼着一块玄武岩石。
My report was rejected, and all my work on it went for nothing .
我的报告遭到拒绝，因而我为此所做的一切工作均属徒劳。
To win him by flattery would be an effort worse than useless .
想用笼络手段来赢得他的好感，准是比徒劳还要不如的白费劲。