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

那我们为什么要全力以赴地追查失原因呢？

Mohamed Yousri was told it's a lost cause.

Mohamed Yousr被告知这注定要失。

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，采取行动动机只因为 他们相信改变可能，我们可以逆转现状。

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

这让理发店很感激，因为她不必在一个注定失事情上浪费资源了。

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

“啊。我想，我能看得出来局已定。”

The men from the 107th were a lost cause.

107团将士们局已定。

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

既然知其不可为 又何必为之？

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》局终定; 四年前，在华盛顿诉戴维斯案中，最高法院首次裁定，为确定违反平等保护条款，有必要提供故意歧视证据。

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，在无限海洋中，这一滴水存在不失，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.

意大利健康家庭储蓄水平支持上述论点。政府可以利用家庭储蓄作为看上去注定失债券市场资金替代手段。

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事情? 有了这样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“失事业”言论坚持。

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

这些文件将越南战争描述为失事业。

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：你认为这行得通吗？我想我失了。

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

顺便说一下，德国情况如此，这一种“失事业神话”，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，这徒劳无功。

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

好吧, 这一个失案例, 他没有希望。