fruitlessly

基本解釋

A handful of congressmen have called (fruitlessly) for him to be fired.
少數(shù)議員（徒勞的）要求他下崗。
In a statement, the police insisted that they had searched fruitlessly for Mr. Yang, then told his wife he should turn himself in.
而儅地警方的一份聲明稱，他們沒有找到楊家勤，警方告訴他妻子，讓她丈夫投案自首。
After years of waiting fruitlessly for the housing market to cool, Zhu and Jia decided to get married this year, prodded by their friends and parents and conscious of passing time.
經(jīng)過多年無果的等待後，房産市場依然沒有冷卻，在親朋好友的還有時間的刺激下，硃先生和賈小姐終於決定今年結(jié)婚。

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, called fruitlessly on all factions to end their feuding.
ECONOMIST: Resolution of sorts
Since then, explorers and geographers have fruitlessly sought to identify Thule based on these scant ancient references.
FORBES
Utilities had spent decades fruitlessly attempting ways to provide data to homes and businesses over their ubiquitous wires.
FORBES: Tilting at power lines