No one who isn’t directly involved would ever believe the incredible duplication and futility

不直接卷入的人没有一个会相信这种不可置信的重复和徒劳。

Shame, compunction, sense of futility flooded his whole being

差耻，内疾和徒劳的感觉浸满他整个的人。

To be overcome by a sense of futility or defeat.

断念被徒劳无功或失败打倒了

Futility : playing a harp before a Buffalo

对牛弹琴,徒劳无功.

My son’s sneakers were developing holes and I was developing a deep sense of futility

儿子的胶鞋穿出洞来．而我越来越深深地感觉到自己的无能。

Before I could come to any conclusion it occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility

还不等我决定是谈还是不谈，我就看出来了，说也罢，或者沉默也罢，我的任何其他行动都不过是徒劳。

A sense of futility stole over her.

她慢慢地产生了一种没用的感觉。

She dribbled away her day in futility

她整天庸庸碌碌一事无成。

You don`t seem to understand the futility of trying to prepare for such a difficult examination in only three months.

你似乎不了解仅仅用三个月时间准备应付这样难的考试是无用的.

The futility of their attempts

他们的尝试无效

Little did they know that these talks were always an exercise in total futility

他们几乎不知道，这种会谈往往都是白费力气，毫无成效。

Tom’s danger and the futility of picking peaches drove the Joads on their way. They hid the injured Tom under the mattresses in the back of the truck

汤姆的危险处境，同时摘桃子又实在无法维持生活，于是乔德这一家人只好重新上路，将受伤的汤姆藏在卡车后面的垫子底下。

Accustomed as I am to public speaking,I know the futility of it.

我虽然习惯公开演讲，但我却知道那是枉费心机的。

It seemed to her a ridiculous armada of tubs jostling in futility

在她看来，这似乎是一个可笑的澡盆舰队，在狂风恶浪中颠簸起伏。

The rate for a box of peaches dropped, meanwhile, to two-and-a-half cents. Tom’s danger and the futility of picking peaches drove the Joads on their way. They hid the injured Tom under the mattresses in the back of the truck.

在这段时间里，摘桃子的工钱跌到了两分半一箱。汤姆的危险处境，同时摘桃子又实在无法维持生活，于是乔德这一家人只好重新上路，将受伤的汤姆藏在卡车后面的垫子底下。

It would be the biggest story in years, and if nothing came out of it, it would lead to a sense of official futility and public despair

这将是几年来最大的事情，而如果一无成就，将会使官方感到束手无策，使公众感到失望。

It has become a threat to democracy and may render the presidential election an exercise in futility .

这是对民主本质的一大威胁，可能使总统选举成为有名无实的民主活动。

||1:THE chances are that the latest of more than half a dozen ceasefires inGazawill hold—at least for a month or so, while the sides talk.||2:The pause may even guide the Gazans and the Israelis to a more lasting accommodation.||3:Yet the skies have fallen silent out of exhaustion and the futility of fighting on, rather than because the conflict has reached a resolution.||4:Barring an unlikely change of heart—on both sides—war will probably begin all over again, sooner or later.

||1:加沙已经停火许多次了，在各方都在谈判时，最近的一次停火很可能维持下去，至少能维持一个月左右。||2:这次停火也许能让加沙人和以色列人走向更持续的和解。||3:然而，天空之所以静下来，不是因为冲突已经解决，而是因为大家精疲力竭，战斗徒劳无用。||4:双方的心意都不大可能改变，战争很可能会再次开始，这是迟早的事。

There is also the sense of futility . Such professionals give a lot of thought to asset allocation—

还有一种无助的感觉。这些专业人员给出了很多关于资产配置建议—

Like General Kayani, he knows first-hand the futility of peace accords that militant groups soon renege on.

前总司令卡亚尼知道，无战争代价的和平定将带来无效的回应——对方军队一定很快就会食言。

To many, Vietnam proves the futility of Western powers using force in somebody else’s country.

对许多人来说，越南证明了西方列强在其他国家动用武力是行不通的。

and it seems to confirm the futility of moves towards the legally binding treaty that many still want.

而且，许多人希望本次会议能达成具法律约束力的条约，但该案文似证明有关努力均属无益。

Neither England nor the United States attempts such an exercise in futility .

而在英国和美国却不存在这种徒劳的尝试。

LIKE a shrine to the futility of foreign intervention, the Nesaji cotton-and-wool factory is empty and idle but surprisingly well-kept.

仿佛外国干涉无用的圣坛，Nesaji棉毛纺织厂虽闲置却令人惊讶地保存完好。

Havel later recalled that what struck him most about that August week was the futility of military power confronted by unarmed civilians.

哈维尔后来回忆称，那年8月的那一周给他留下最深刻印象的是，对手无寸铁的平民动武是徒劳的。

Warnings of flood, famine, drought and mass extinction merge into an overwhelming sense of futility .

洪水、饥荒、干旱和物种灭绝等征候，渐渐化作无法抑制的徒劳感。

As in the war museum, the moment is revelatory. It makes me realise with sudden clarity the futility of the whole US venture in Vietnam.

就像在战争博物馆时一样，这个时刻具有启示性，令我突然清晰地认识到，美国冒险进攻越南完全是徒劳之举。

One shows the importance of holding sovereign debt issued under foreign law, the other the futility of doing so.

历史经验告诉我们持有外国发行的国债的重要性，但也告诉我们这么做是徒劳的。

With that legacy of futility , green groups bring their ethos that America, its allies and corporations form an axis of evil.

绿色组织的理论是，美国、美国的盟友及各大公司构成了邪恶轴心，导致它们一无所获。

CHART OF THE DAY: Microsoft’s Years Of Search Futility (MSFT, GOOG)

每日例图：微软在搜索引擎的徒劳岁月

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