Futile

(adj.) producing no result or effect; 'a futile effort'; 'the therapy was ineffectual'; 'an otiose undertaking'; 'an unavailing attempt' .

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• Speculation is futile, said Professor Porter sadly. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• In fact he could do nothing but make a wild and futile attempt to dislodge me. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• To read were futile--to write, vanity indeed. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The active life to which he had been born and bred had given him something else to do than to join the futile chase of the pleasure-hunter. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• We pass on now to the story of one futile commencement, one glorious shattered beginning of human unity. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• No trace of her have we found, and I fear that it be a futile quest. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Unless we win, all other things are futile. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Already, however, it had been urged that Sturgeon's magnet could be used for telegraphic purposes, and a futile trial was made. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It is only against the weak affectation and futile pomposity of a would-be aristocrat they turn mutinous. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• We can imagine something of the coming and going of messengers, the issuing of futile orders, the changes of plan, throughout the day. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It has been the practice of recent writers to decry the philosophical discussion of the medi?val schoolmen as tedious and futile. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He gathered diets and councils in futile attempts at reconciliation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Her rosy blondness had survived some forty years of futile activity without showing much trace of ill-usage except in a diminished play of feature. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• There was a brief and futile effort of defence. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• But without knowledge of it that progress will be checkered and perhaps futile. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The hammer fell with a futile click upon an empty chamber. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• It is consequently futile to set up even the ulterior development of faculties of observation, memory, etc. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• I suggested in an earlier chapter that the issue of honesty and dishonesty was a futile one, and I placed faith in the creative men. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Political action becomes a petty, futile, mean little intrusion when its only method is prosecution. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• To shut the door in the face of such a current of feeling because it is occasionally exasperated into violence would be as futile as locking up children because they get into mischief. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• With the belief that government is futile and mischievous unless supported by the mass of the people; with the undeniable fact that business has corrupted public officials--I have no complaint. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The history of the next fifteen years is the story of the most brilliant and futile raid in history. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Much has been devoted to the futile efforts of unsuccessful business competition. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It is futile to attempt to arrange them in an order, beginning with one having least worth and going on to that of maximum value. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The day after this, he stayed at home--it seemed so futile to go down to the office. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• It was a depressing sight, marking such titanic but futile struggles with nature. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• These struggles with the natural character, the strong native bent of the heart, may seem futile and fruitless, but in the end they do good. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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