futile

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futile 是什么意思

中文释义

a. 无用的, 琐细的, 不重要的

英文释义

s. producing no result or effect

futile 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 futile 在自然语境里怎么用：

This is still better than futile tossing and turning, waste of time, and fitful sleep associated with insomnia.

—— Good Sleep, Good Learning (2012)

They waste precious time on futile attempts to fall asleep at a wrong time.

—— Good Sleep, Good Learning (2012)

It was also immediately obvious that the path from lab to clinic would be lengthy, arduous and possibly futile.

—— Is stem cell therapy about to transform medicine and reverse ageing?

In Radu Jude’s blistering contemporary riff on Roberto Rossellini, a tragic death sends a bailiff spiralling into a futile campaign of self-flagellation.

—— Oneohtrix Point Never’s Sense of the Uncanny

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