英语释义

• to no avail;

  "he looked for her in vain"

  "the city fathers tried vainly to find a solution"

片语

vainly boast高傲地自吹自擂

expect vainly白想

Vainly Attempt妄图

fruitlesslyad 无益地，徒劳地

hope vainly徒然希望

ungratefullyad 徒劳地；忘恩负义地

try vainly徒劳地尝试

vainly hope梦想

profess vainly含糊地表白

Vainly Scowling枉凝眉

vainly y徒劳地

英汉例句

• auntie julia vainly asked each of her neighbours in turn to tell her what gabriel had said.

  朱利亚姨妈接连向坐在旁边的人打听加布里埃尔刚才说了些什么，却没有问出个所以然来。

• vainly i had sought some method of manifestation, some way to make my continued existence and my great love and poignant pity understood by my husband and son.

  可惜我总是找不到表达的方法让我的丈夫而儿子了解我的存在、我深深的爱和不幸。

• the europeans have tried vainly to exert some influence over the region.

  欧洲努力对该地区施加影响，但图劳无功。

• i「ve had many a laugh at her perplexities and untold troubles, which she vainly strove to hide from my mockery.

  我总笑她那些困惑和说不出口的烦恼，我的嘲笑她可是躲不过的哩。

• for while the tired waves, vainly breaking

  因为疲惫的波浪，徒然地破碎时

• after trying vainly to turn himself into an english gentleman, he was initiated into hindu philosophy by a russian theosophist.

  他曾努力将自己变成一位英国绅士，但都是徒劳。他被一个俄罗斯神智学者引入到印度哲学中。

• but it can be counterproductive if markets decide a government is vainly trying to prevent the inevitable rise in its currency -- and investors bet even more on what becomes a one-way bet.

  但如果市场认为政府正在徒劳地试图阻止本国货币不可避免的上扬，此举则会产生反效果，因为投资者此时会不约而同地将更多赌注押在本币将进一步走强上。

• he took off after me, vainly trying to land a blow.

  他在后面紧追不舍，总想打到我。

• they would have vainly sought- had they ever dreamed of seeking- to express the highest truths through the humblest medium of familiar words and images.

  他们即使确曾梦想过运用日常语言和譬喻这种最普通的媒介来表达最崇高的真理的能力，然而他们的这种追求也是徒劳的。

• then let the sad eyes of love vainly watch and weep.

  那就让爱的愁眼，徒然地因着盼望而流泪。

• vainly i cry， 「i do not know you.」

  我徒然地叫道：「我不认识你们。」

• he lingered in the folly of despair about those sordid lodgings in diisseldorf, as one might circle vainly about the spot in the ocean where some pearl of great price had fallen overboard.

  带着傻傻的绝望神情，他徘徊在杜塞尔多夫那些破败的房屋附近，就好像是有无价的珍珠自船上坠入了海洋，他就是那个在珍珠坠海位置上徒劳转悠的人。

• in that regard, spending hundreds of billions vainly attempting to pacify afghanistan is unlikely to help much. far more useful (if hardly less challenging) might be the following

  从这方面讲，斥资数千亿元平复阿富汗战争，徒劳无功，不可能有多大帮助。更有用（如果不太具有挑战性）的办法可能如下

• finally 「granny」, small and plump, still wearing defiantly high heels, totters through the metal detector, her hands vainly clutching her ruined hairstyle.

  最后，这位 身材矮小的胖胖的「奶奶」，还穿着高跟鞋，缓慢的通过了金属探测仪，双手徒劳地抓着她被毁的发型。

• they continue to manipulate various factors, such as concentration and frequency, vainly trying to draw a parallel line between the animals and humans when there isn’t one.

  他们继续控制各种因素，如浓度和使用次数，妄图在动物和人类之间做比较，而这种可比性是不存在的。

• it is that people don」t know their place and scramble vainly to improve it.

  而是人们不知道自己的位置并且徒劳的争抢着去改善它。

• local residents and the council have vainly opposed two whitehall-inspired housing projects—plans for 10,000 homes in reading west and 490 in reading east.

  当地居民和议会曾徒劳地反对过两项政府鼓励的住房项目——这些规划在雷丁西区适用于1万户家庭，而在雷丁东区仅适用于490户。

• many in the west hoped vainly that mr putin might turn out to be a liberal.

  西方许多人都寄希望于普京会是一个自由派，结果发现全是徒劳。

• he shouted after them, vainly trying to attract their attention.

  他在他们的后面高喊，想引起他们的注意，却是徒劳。 。

• their father told them they could either 「command respect」 through their efforts, or be left vainly to 「demand respect」 from people who badmouthed them behind their backs.

  他们的父亲告诉过他们，他们要么通过努力「赢得尊重」，要么徒劳地向那些背后会说你坏话的人「要来尊重」。

• while vainly helping somalia's islamists, eritrea has shown it can also help make peace if it wants to.

  尽管在徒劳的协助索教派武装，厄也已表示如果对方愿意，那么他将为缔造和平而努力。