futility

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。

It was as important to him as it was to them to underscore the horror and futility of it.

重视战争的可怕和无用，对他很重要，其它人也一样。

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。

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。

I can well understand that everyone will be profoundly impressed with the utter futility of this sort of dilettantism.

几乎每个人都会对这种看似徒劳的业馀性的艺术爱好印象深刻，对此我很能理解。

So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

所以我说，且在主里确实的说，你们行事不要再像外邦人存虚妄的心行事。

All this and much more has to be said to demonstrate the futility of all the allegedly scientific achievements of Marx.

所有这些，还有更多的事实，据说都证明了马克思所取得的所有科学成就均属无用。

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。

It was much more than an exercise in futility. It was an act of bravery and nobility.

这不仅仅是在履行职责，而是勇气和高尚的表现。

It ceases to be that exercise in detachment and passion which crowns the splendor and futility of a man's life.

它不再是超脱和激情的那种尝试，它也结束了人生的壮美与徒劳。

Despairing over the futility of all her ceremonies and sacrifices, Shiva abandoned the gods and took up a sword instead.

希娃为自己无济于事的祭礼和牺牲感到绝望，她背弃了神灵，拿起了剑。

Like German expressionist images of the war, these formidable scenes convey the mess, filth, exhaustion and futility of the western front.

正如德国表现主义对战争的再现，这些极具冲击力的画面表现了西线的混乱、肮脏、乏力与无益。

It does not recommend crime, for this would be childish, but it restores to remorse its futility.

它不推崇罪恶，因为那是幼稚的行为，然而它却会悔恨自己的无力。

Although bureaucrats still occasionally try to impose state controls on the city, the futility of the effort quickly becomes apparent.

虽然政府偶然也会去对这所城市实施强制的控制措施，但是很快这努力的徒劳就显现出来了。

In their state of decline they symbolize the futility of revolutions as well as any political appropriation of culture.

它们的衰落象征着革命毫无结果，以及文化为政治所用。

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。

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。

An exercise in a course at Wharton's advanced management program exposes the futility of the buzzword descriptors many companies use.

一个沃顿商学院高级管理课程的课堂练习暴露了许多公司使用流行术语的虚无。

Slowly but surely people are waking up to the futility of war, and the move towards putting a permanent stop to them is gaining pace.

缓慢但是效果显然的，人们在了解到战争的豪无意义，并且在不断吸引一个永久停止它们的行动到来。