So many hours, so well meant, but ultimately so futile.

他们满怀好意，花了不少时间， 到头来无功。

Each one strained every nerve to break the bundle.

每个人都使出了九牛二虎之力，花了很长时间还是无功。

He screamed and bawled for the van to stop; but all in vain.

他大吼大叫，想让车停下来，但是切都无功。

I retorted. My head spun around in answerless circles.

我反驳着。我脑子无功地转着。

For " moat" people, it would be a " futile" effort.

对于大多数人来说，都是无功。

Charging equal interest rates regardless of odds of success or intended major is a recipe for fruitless credential inflation.

不管成功几率有多大，也不管拟修读专业是什么，收取同等利率会导致无功学历膨胀。

In 1898, the author Morgan Robertson wrote a novel called Futility, which was a story about the maiden voyage of a luxury liner, called the Titan.

1898年，Morgan Robertson 写了本名《无功》小说，讲述了艘“泰坦号”豪华游轮航。

Indeed a visit to Monterey and its nearby shores is a lesson in the futility of searching for the perfect adjective… the ideal hashtag.

造访蒙特利与周边海岸时，试图寻找完美形容词，或下个理想注解，确都是无功。

I tried to stop him from smoking, but to no purpose.

我设法阻止他不要抽烟，却无功。

The wrong decision will mean a wild-goose chase.

走错方向意味着切将无功。

But even the most cynical secretly admit that success exists; that achievement counts for a great deal; and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women are useless.

但即使是最愤世嫉俗人暗地里也承认，成功确实存在，成就意义举足轻重，而把世上男男所作所说成是无功才是真正无稽之谈。

Captain America started sprinting, but it was no use.

美国队长开始冲刺，但无功。

The victories are reminders that we are not powerless, and our work is not futile.

这些胜利提醒我们，我们并非无能力，我们工作也并非无功。

It's better to save our energy for things we can actually influence.

当人们试图改变件事情 但是却无功 你可以说他在barking at the moon 字面上是向月亮狂吠 barking at the moon 就是像只狗向月亮直吠 月亮不会有任何反应 同样当个人正在做无功事情 他就是在barking at the moon。

When the folly as well as the uselessness of the adventure was pointed out to him, he contented himself with replying, " If the thing is feasible, the first to do it ought to be an Englishman" .

人家告诉他福克这个计划是十分愚蠢。是无功，他只是回答说：" 要是这桩事可以办得到，那末，首先办到是个英国人，那不是很好吗？"

Or will we simply seed the Earth, our souls nothing more than a worldly fancy that took our minds off our cosmic insignificance and the feeling of futility that we sometimes experience here on tera-firma?

或者我们将简单地播种地球，我们灵魂 只不过是种世俗幻想我们想到了宇宙微不足道 我们有时会感到无功在这里体验tera-firma？

Now I tried, ineffectively I might add, in the sessions to raise your expectations of the property for the same price, by justifiably showing you, I thought, how value fulfillment psychically could definitely add to the construction.

现在，我也许可以这么说，我试着在几节课里，提高你们对相同价位房产期待，我用我认很合理地方式，向你们展示，灵性上值充盈(valuefulfillment)可以如何确切地增益建构，但无功。

He continually dipped into the money he had earned from his books and even his wife's family inheritance to keep the dying machine afloat, but it was all for naught.

他不断挪用作品收入甚至妻子家族遗产来贴补这款濒临淘汰机器运转，但这切已经是无功了。

It once again portrays Tommy's view of death as something ugly, something that has to be denied and evaded at all cost despite knowing the effort would ultimately be pointless.

这再次展示了汤米眼中死亡——丑陋怪物必须被否定和根除，即使知道不惜切代价，依然无功。

Mating with an infertile male is therefore not only fruitless in itself, but should also leave a female less interested in unmodified males in future.

因此，与不育雄性交配不仅无功，而且还会在未来让雌性对未改动雄性失去兴趣。