futility

1. N-UNCOUNT 无益;无用;徒劳;白费
   Futility is a total lack of purpose or usefulness.
   1. ...the injustice and futility of terrorism.
      恐怖主义的非正义性和枉费心机

1. The sheer futility of it all exasperates her.
   它毫无用处，这让她很生气。
2. An opposition spokesman said he hoped the agreement would give them pause for thought about the futility of violence.
   反对派发言人说他希望协议能够让他们仔细想想暴力行为毫无意义。
3. Work is the way that people seek to redeem their lives from futility
   工作可以避免人们虚度生命。
4. At this moment of success I found only an unreasoning sense of futility
   在这一成功的时刻我只感到一阵莫名的枉然。
5. Fed up with the futility of the 2012 environment, the consortium moved decisively.
   受够了徒劳无功的2012时代之后，“财团”采取了决定性的行动。
6. My response to this top10 question is: Rearranging WHERE clause predicates may be an exercise in futility.
   我对这个前十大问题的回答是：重新安排WHERE子句谓词可能是无用功。
7. Shame, compunction, and sense of futility flooded his whole being.
   羞耻、内疚和徒劳的感觉把他整个人都淹没了。
8. The futility of worry: In the story of the clock we see that worry does not solve problems.
   烦恼是徒劳无功的：从时钟的故事中我们可以发现一个道理：烦恼是解决不了问题的。
9. Hope and humanity and perhaps, ultimately, futility.
   希望和仁慈，也许最终还是徒劳。
10. It is a powerful lesson to the futility of suppressing competition.
    玛瑙斯的教训充分证明，抑制竞争是徒劳无益的。
11. This could generate a sense of futility, which can lead to despair and self-destruction.
    这些会产生对无效用旳感觉，导致失望及自我毁灭。
12. To be overcomeby a sense of futility or defeat.
    断念被徒劳无功或失败打倒了。
13. You drop the mind, or it drops of its own accord because you have seen the futility of it.
    你放下了头脑，或者它放下了它自己&因为你已经看到了它的无效。
14. One of those generalized but savage remarks about the futility of love.
    对爱之无益的那些一般性但却激烈的评论之一种。
15. A sense of futility stole over her.
    她慢慢地产生了一种没用的感觉。
16. The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.
    人们感觉到人的愿望和目的都属徒然，而有感觉到自然界里和思维世界里却显示出崇高庄严和不可思议的秩序。
17. After a few days a feeling of futility, not to mention loneliness, sets in.
    观察几天之后，一种徒劳无功之感就会悄然而生，更不用提寂寞孤独了。
18. No one who isn't directly involved would ever believe the incredible duplication and futility.
    不直接卷入的人没有一个会相信这种不可置信的重复和徒劳。
19. This book demonstrates the futility and arrogance of modern art and the poverty of aesthetics in the western world.
    本书将展示现代艺术的无聊与自负，展现西方世界中美学的贫困。
20. If you understand how software works, you know the futility of measuring productivity by lines of code.
    如果你理解软件的运作方式，就能知道按代码行数衡量工作效率毫无意义。
21. His efforts were accompanied by a sense of futility and doubt.
    他的努力给人一种无用而可疑的感觉。
22. The futility of my efforts to help my sister compelled me to seek answers.
    之前我为此所做的无用功驱使我更加努力地去寻求答案。
23. Mine is no futility of genius that can't sell gems to the magazines.
    至少它没那么对我，不讲求实际效用的天赋只是一座矿藏，一座不可能向杂志社供给宝石的矿藏。
24. 'I know you did all you could.'under the pressure of a feeling of futility his voice trailed off.
    “我知道您已经尽了最大的努力。”在一种无能为力的感觉的压力下，他的声音逐渐消逝。
25. The film is so fair that neither side is seen as right, and both seem trapped by futility.
    这部是一部公正的电影，没有偏袒任何一方，反而让双方的努力都显得困于徒劳之中。
26. Accustom as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.
    我虽然习惯公开演讲，但我却知道那是枉费心机的。
27. Even in ordinary life you feel the futility of words.
    即使在日常的生活中你也往往能感受到言辞的无助和无效。
28. The movie depicts the futility of war.
    这部电影描绘了战争的无益。
29. This is not an exercise in futility, but one that will leave you feeling a lot better.
    这并非是徒劳之举，而是一个将离开你的感觉好了很多。
30. My son's sneakers were developing holes and I was developing a deep sense of futility.
    儿子的胶鞋穿出洞来。而我越来越深深地感觉到自己的无能。

noun

1. uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result