in vain

单词in vain

基本解释

na.: 无益地；轻慢地
网络: 徒劳；徒然；白白地

英汉解释

• 徒然;一场空

• 白白地

• 徒劳的

同义词

adv.unsuccessfullyuselesslyhopelesslyfor nothingto no avail

反义词

adv.successfully

例句

• Now grown up, for you; I am strong, and for you; I changed for you. I know it is all in vain!

  现在长大了，为你；我坚强了，为你；我改变着，为你。只是我知道这一切都是徒然！

• Let me not grope in vain in the dark but keep my mind still in the faith that the day will break and truth will appear in its simplicity.

  我不要在黑暗里徒然摸索，却该使头脑冷静地深信白天必将降临，真理也将出现在

• You must not come back, or else how can you leave me one? But there was no you, no matter how much happiness is all in vain.

  你一定是不回来了，要不你怎么会留下我一个呢？可是没有你，再多的幸福也是枉然。

• Day after day he waited in vain for her to telephone him.

  日复一日，他徒劳地等待着她的电话。

• All our efforts to persuade the old man to leave the dangerous house were in vain.

  我们极力劝说那位老人离开那栋危房，老人就是不听。

• We have been waiting for her to come back to see us, but (we have been waiting) in vain.

  我们一直在等她回来看望我们，但我们白等了。【高考链接】

• A Ghanaian family took him in temporarily, and Kwasi waited in vain to hear from his aunt.

  一个加纳家庭暂时收留了他。夸西等待姨母的消息，可杳无音信。

• The two halves on the Korean Peninsula have been trying to get reunited for several decades yet in vain.

  半个多世纪以来，朝鲜半岛南、北两国都宣称致力于朝鲜民族统一，但至今未果。

• I spent so much time on her, but it was all in vain.

  我在她身上花了那麽多时间，但是完全白费了。

• Nowadays, you go around like this but it is certain to be refused everywhere. It is in vain for you to hold a great ambition.

  以你目前这个模样，却想到处传播你的儒学思想，肯定是处处碰壁，徒有满腔热情也是枉然的。