| 单词 | futile |
| 释义 | futile (fjuːtaɪl , US -təl ) adjective If you say that something is futile, you mean there is no point in doing it, usually because it has no chance of succeeding. He brought his arm up in a futile attempt to ward off the blow. It would be futile to sustain his life when there is no chance of any improvement. Synonyms: useless, vain, unsuccessful, pointless Collocations: futile search Except it would be a long and futile search. The Sun Both developed a false intimacy with photographers and the public and began to cannibalise themselves in their futile search for security in love. Times, Sunday Times Few write with the same sense of life's irreducible ambiguities, or pin characters more exactingly between the sense of their own unknowability and their futile search for clarity. The Times Literary Supplement Today, however, we move away from the beach and the fruitless, frustrating and, one suspects, futile search for the lost rings and back inland into the village proper. Times,Sunday Times Battling 30-foot seas, 40 knot winds, and below-freezing temperatures, she arrived on scene and began what proved to be a futile search for survivors. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Is he not blamed for being the lead figure behind an ultimately futile strike that destroyed the coal industry? Times, Sunday Times But last night serious questions were being asked about the wisdom of the ultimately futile investigation. The Sun All that the reallocation of resources achieved was a brief and ultimately futile effort to keep people where there was no longer work for them to earn a living. Times, Sunday Times They have no enthusiasm for a long, divisive and ultimately futile resistance. The Sun But the hope that promises would be kept was ultimately futile. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 无谓的常因无成功的可能而 Japanese: 無益な |
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