So why exactly do we go all in on lost causes?

那我们什么要全力以赴地追查失败的原因呢？

Mohamed Yousri was told it's a lost cause.

Mohamed Yousr被告知这注要失败的。

Some people are motivated to act by a crisis, but for many, the incentive to act only comes when they believe that change is possible, that it isn't a lost cause.

有些人受危机影响而不得不采取行动，但对于许多人来说，采取行动的动机只因 他们相信可能的，我们可以逆转现状。

This left the salon owner grateful not to be spending resources on a lost cause.

这让理发店的老板很感激，因她不必在一个注失败的事情上浪费资源了。

" Yes, indeed. I think I know a lost cause when I see one."

“啊。我想，我能看得出来败局已。”

The men from the 107th were a lost cause.

107团的将士们败局已。

So if it's a lost cause, why do it?

既然知其不可 又何必之？

The Fourteenth Amendment was also a lost cause; four years earlier, in Washington v. Davis, the Court had ruled for the first time that proof of intentional discrimination was necessary to establish a violation of the equal-protection clause.

《第十四条修正案》也败局终; 四年前，在华盛顿诉戴维斯案中，最高法院首次，确违反平等保护条款，有必要提供故意歧视的证据。

It emphasizes that it only takes one drop to preserve goodness and justice, and within a limitless ocean, the existence of this drop is not a lost cause, it is all that matters.

它强调到，一滴水同样能延续善良和正义，在无限的海洋中，这一滴水的存在不失败，它胜于一切。

The healthy rate of Italian household saving underpinning this could be tapped by the government as an alternative to bond-market funding, which looks a lost cause.

意大利健康的家庭储蓄水平支持上述论点。政府可以利用家庭储蓄作看上去注失败的债券市场资金的替代手段。

Or Bob Barker? Or Elton John? Or do they just remember that they did? With the cause lost in the flash of camera lights.

还有鲍勃? 埃尔顿·约翰? 还只记住他们曾经做过的事情? 有了这样的话题但依旧迷失在聚光灯和相机闪光灯下。

Former president undercut their adherence to the lost cause rhetoric that was embraced by southern historians at the end of the 19th century.

这位前总统削弱了他们对19世纪末南方历史学家所接受的“失败事业”言论的坚持。

The documents described the war in Vietnam as a lost cause.

这些文件将越南战争描述失败的事业。

But to me it's not a lost cause.

但对我来说，这并非徒劳无功。

Do you think it would work? I think I'm a lost cause.

保罗：你认这行得通吗？我想我失败了。

Germany, by the way, that's a form of lost cause mythology too, very explicitly.

顺便说一下，德国的情况也如此，这也一种“失败事业神话”，非常明确。

It didn't, it just, you're a lost cause.

没有，你就个无可救药的人。

I'm not, this isn't a like Caleb Williams is a lost cause sort of situation.

这并不说卡莱布·威廉姆斯个无可救药的情况。

Even if white women can't get judges, it's a lost cause, bro.

即使白人女性无法获得法官职位，兄弟，这也徒劳无功的。

Okay, well, this is a lost cause. He's hopeless.

好吧, 这一个失败的案例, 他没有希望的。