Abortive

(adj.) failing to accomplish an intended result; 'an abortive revolt'; 'a stillborn plot to assassinate the President' .

德洛丽丝整理

• He lived and died a poor man; he was perhaps the most honest of demagogues; but this did not save him from an abortive prosecution for peculation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It would be interesting to trace out the forms it has taken, the abortive cults it has tried and abandoned. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The cherub faintly muttered something to the abortive effect of 'Oh, indeed, my dear! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The trans-Mississippi movement proved abortive. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• He was employed as artillery commander in an abortive raid upon Corsica, and then went to Paris (1795) rather down at heel. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• All necessary steps were at once taken to render such an attempt abortive. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• One of these virtuosi seemed to think that I might be an embryo, or abortive birth. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Only at the third did our visit prove abortive. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Kashkin had been in the north at Irun, at San Sebastian and in the abortive fighting toward Vitoria. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.

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