in vain

常見例句

雙語例句

• Our efforts were not in vain.; We didn't waste our energy.
  我們的力氣沒有白費。
  《新英漢大辭典》
• By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
  并且你們?nèi)舨皇峭饺幌嘈牛芤猿质匚宜鶄鹘o你們的，就必因這福音得救。
• But unless he manages to pacify the people of the Delta and so secure its pipelines and refineries, the reforms will be in vain.
  但除非他設(shè)法平息了三角洲地區(qū)的民眾并保證管道和煉油廠的安全，這些改革都將只是徒然。

原聲例句

• It is rather for us,the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that,from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain;
• "For we assert," he says, "nature does nothing in vain and man alone " among the animals has speech.
  他說，“因為我們主張自然演變并不無道理,而人類獨立于其它動物之外,是因為我們有辯論能力。
  耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
• Specifically you'll see that the rationale for observing the Sabbath is different. God's name in Deuteronomy 5 is not to be used in a vain oath as opposed to a false oath. There are differences in the meaning.
  你會發(fā)現(xiàn)兩者對守安息日習(xí)俗的論述是特別不同的,《申命記》第五章的描述是，不可以妄稱上帝的名,而不是不可以以上帝的名義作假誓，它們表達的意思。
  耶魯公開課 - 舊約導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

權(quán)威例句

• In vain has it touted the completed or continuing trials of 111 other defendants.
  ECONOMIST: The Hague war-crimes tribunal
• Some of these were contained electronically so much of the shredding was in vain.
  FORBES: Rajaratnam Evidence -- Where Are The Emails?
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