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Chinese translation for "徒劳无功"

[ túláowúgōng ] 
prove futile; beat the air; be a wasted effort; burn daylight; carry coals to new castle; catch shadows; catch the wind in a net; come to naught; draw water in [with] a sieve; end in smoke; fish in the air; flog a dead horse; hold a candle to the sun; labor to no purpose; make a futile effort; make useless trouble; milk a hegoat; much ado about nothing; not to succeed after trying hard; paint the lily; plough [sow] the sands; plow the wave; use [exert] vain efforts; wasted effort; work in vain; work to no avail

Related Translations:
有关徒劳无功:  about futility
徒劳无功的工作:  fool's errand
作徒劳无功的事:  make ropes of sand
致一位徒劳无功的朋友:  to a friend whose work has come to nothing
Example Sentences:
1.It is aimless to cast water into the sea .
投杯水于大海,徒劳无功
2.Her efforts were all useless .
她的努力全部徒劳无功
3.I had been stalling the diplomacy for nothing .
我在外交上所进行的拖延其实是徒劳无功的。
4.It was the cold of his errand, a foot's errand .
这是因为这趟奔走肯定徒劳无功而感到发冷吧。
5.While i was still vainly trying to establish order i heard a frightful yelling .
我正在徒劳无功地维持秩序,忽然听到一声可怕的喊叫。
6.They endeavoured to make her happy but in vain
他们尽量使她快乐,却徒劳无功
7.They endeavoured to make her happy but in vain
他们尽量使她快乐,却徒劳无功
8.How it could be now or 4 ) might have been
想象我们现在会怎样或可能会怎样也是徒劳无功
9.Revising the procedure was an entirely profitless exercise
对程序进行修改是徒劳无功
10.And so it is an exercise in futility
因此,那一切根本是徒劳无功之举。
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