but zoning out fast-food restaurants in cities is a lost cause — they are probably already too thick on the ground for new restrictions to alter the culinary mix.
he is a tone deaf, so he is a lost cause when it comes to music.
他对音调一点感觉也没有,所以听音乐的时候他就无可救药了。
john wants very much to get a job in the film industry, and he takes no notice of me when i tell him it「s a lost cause .
约翰极想在电影界找个工作,我告诉他事早晚成不了,但他却毫不理会。
mcpherson sheds light on topics large and small, from the average soldier」s avid love of newspapers to the postwar creation of the mystique of a lost cause in the south.