| 释义 |
Definition of Sisyphean in English: Sisypheanadjectiveˌsɪsɪˈfiːənˌsɪsəˈfiən Denoting a task that can never be completed. Example sentencesExamples - For some it's an afternoon's entertainment, falling off their board and hauling themselves up again with a kind of Sisyphean hopelessness.
- It's a Sisyphean task making today's complex software, with millions of lines of code, totally bug free.
- I find this a laudable goal but often a Sisyphean task.
- It was a Sisyphean task of epic proportions that defied a normal life expectancy.
- Such a daunting task is a true Sisyphean labour!
- He strikes me as living in a quiet purgatory, working in a lonely, Sisyphean pursuit of redemption by calling for younger generations to step back from the conflicts we accept with resigned inevitability even as we oppose them in word.
- The first exercise machine, in fact, was designed as a particularly tedious form of Sisyphean punishment.
- Happy lunchtime. I managed to book holidays, after what looked at first like a Sisyphean struggle.
- My favorite scene features a dung beetle trying to roll a bit of dinner up a hill; a more Sisyphean struggle I haven't seen.
- For years, the music and film industries have fought a Sisyphean battle against piracy.
- Jack considers Roberta to be the farthest gone of the group and suggests that her obsession has trapped her in a ‘hopeless Sisyphean life’.
- The effort can seem Sisyphean, but it's effective.
- There is, of course, something Sisyphean about this.
- Governance reform takes on a Sisyphean quality in Canada: at one and the same time it is both a powerful compulsion and, apparently, a frustrating, if not impossible, task.
- Not only do they lose the game but they are sentenced to a Sisyphean task.
- He's urging anyone who's listening to continue on toward their desires, no matter how Sisyphean the task may prove to be.
- The job of encouraging better care of livestock is Sisyphean.
- Yes, it's a difficult task, maybe even a Sisyphean one, but it's that challenge that ennobles what journalists do.
- It was a Sisyphean task - but Paul did not give in.
- Of course, trying to correct an animal rights activist with erroneous information is a Sisyphean task.
Synonyms futile, pointless, purposeless, impractical, vain, in vain, to no purpose, to no avail, unavailing, bootless, nugatory, hopeless, unusable, ineffectual, inefficacious, impotent, fruitless, unprofitable, profitless, unproductive, unachievable
Origin Late 16th century: from Latin Sisypheius (based on Greek Sisuphos: see Sisyphus) + -an. Rhymes Actaeon, Aegean, aeon (US eon), Augean, Behan, Cadmean, Caribbean, Carolean, Chaldean, Cyclopean, empyrean, epicurean, European, Fijian, Galilean, Hasmonean, Hebridean, Herculean, Ian, Jacobean, Kampuchean, Laodicean, lien, Linnaean (US Linnean), Maccabean, Mandaean (US Mandean), Medicean, monogenean, Nabataean (US Nabatean), Orphean, paean, paeon, pean, peon, Periclean, piscean, plebeian, Pyrenean, Pythagorean, Sabaean, Sadducean, skean, Tanzanian, Tennesseean, Terpsichorean, theodicean, Tyrolean Definition of Sisyphean in US English: Sisypheanadjectiveˌsisəˈfēənˌsɪsəˈfiən (of a task) such that it can never be completed. Example sentencesExamples - It was a Sisyphean task of epic proportions that defied a normal life expectancy.
- He's urging anyone who's listening to continue on toward their desires, no matter how Sisyphean the task may prove to be.
- Not only do they lose the game but they are sentenced to a Sisyphean task.
- For some it's an afternoon's entertainment, falling off their board and hauling themselves up again with a kind of Sisyphean hopelessness.
- I find this a laudable goal but often a Sisyphean task.
- It was a Sisyphean task - but Paul did not give in.
- Jack considers Roberta to be the farthest gone of the group and suggests that her obsession has trapped her in a ‘hopeless Sisyphean life’.
- Of course, trying to correct an animal rights activist with erroneous information is a Sisyphean task.
- Such a daunting task is a true Sisyphean labour!
- My favorite scene features a dung beetle trying to roll a bit of dinner up a hill; a more Sisyphean struggle I haven't seen.
- There is, of course, something Sisyphean about this.
- Yes, it's a difficult task, maybe even a Sisyphean one, but it's that challenge that ennobles what journalists do.
- Happy lunchtime. I managed to book holidays, after what looked at first like a Sisyphean struggle.
- The job of encouraging better care of livestock is Sisyphean.
- He strikes me as living in a quiet purgatory, working in a lonely, Sisyphean pursuit of redemption by calling for younger generations to step back from the conflicts we accept with resigned inevitability even as we oppose them in word.
- For years, the music and film industries have fought a Sisyphean battle against piracy.
- It's a Sisyphean task making today's complex software, with millions of lines of code, totally bug free.
- Governance reform takes on a Sisyphean quality in Canada: at one and the same time it is both a powerful compulsion and, apparently, a frustrating, if not impossible, task.
- The effort can seem Sisyphean, but it's effective.
- The first exercise machine, in fact, was designed as a particularly tedious form of Sisyphean punishment.
Synonyms futile, pointless, purposeless, impractical, vain, in vain, to no purpose, to no avail, unavailing, bootless, nugatory, hopeless, unusable, ineffectual, inefficacious, impotent, fruitless, unprofitable, profitless, unproductive, unachievable
Origin Late 16th century: from Latin Sisypheius (based on Greek Sisuphos: see Sisyphus)+ -an. |