in vain

Now grown up, for you; I am strong, and for you; I changed for you. I know it is all in vain!

现在长大了，为你；我坚强了，为你；我改变着，为你。只是我知道这一切都是徒然！

Let me not grope in vain in the dark but keep my mind still in the faith that the day will break and truth will appear in its simplicity.

我不要在黑暗里徒然摸索，却该使头脑冷静地深信白天必将降临，真理也将出现在

You must not come back, or else how can you leave me one? But there was no you, no matter how much happiness is all in vain.

你一定是不回来了，要不你怎么会留下我一个呢？可是没有你，再多的幸福也是枉然。

Day after day he waited in vain for her to telephone him.

日复一日，他徒劳地等待着她的电话。

All our efforts to persuade the old man to leave the dangerous house were in vain.

我们极力劝说那位老人离开那栋危房，老人就是不听。

We have been waiting for her to come back to see us, but (we have been waiting) in vain.

我们一直在等她回来看望我们，但我们白等了。【高考链接】

A Ghanaian family took him in temporarily, and Kwasi waited in vain to hear from his aunt.

一个加纳家庭暂时收留了他。夸西等待姨母的消息，可杳无音信。

The two halves on the Korean Peninsula have been trying to get reunited for several decades yet in vain.

半个多世纪以来，朝鲜半岛南、北两国都宣称致力于朝鲜民族统一，但至今未果。

I spent so much time on her, but it was all in vain.

我在她身上花了那麽多时间，但是完全白费了。

Nowadays, you go around like this but it is certain to be refused everywhere. It is in vain for you to hold a great ambition.

以你目前这个模样，却想到处传播你的儒学思想，肯定是处处碰壁，徒有满腔热情也是枉然的。

Paddy jumped to his feet, his face stupefied; he had never heard Fee take the name of the Lord in vain before.

帕迪跳起来了，他的面容发呆。从前他从未听见菲这样漫不经心地亵渎上帝的圣名。

Schumacher almost edged Barrichello into the pit wall as he tried in vain to stop his former team mate passing him for P10 late in the race.

大舒马赫几乎将巴里切罗挤到PIT墙，他企图阻止他的前队友在上周的比赛中超过他获得第十。

Often I even, in vain, desire to turn the mirror upside down and seek my own glory.

我常常甚至是徒劳地希望把镜子倒过来，寻求自己的荣耀。

In vain I punished your people; they did not respond to correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

我责打你们的儿女是徒然的，他们不受惩治。你们自己的刀吞灭你们的先知，好像残害的狮子。

But it was all in vain, and I had a feeling of the most dreadful, shameful failure.

但这都是徒劳无益的，我有种极度可怕、极度可耻的失败的感觉。

Floyd Landis made several lame excuses blaming medicine he had been taking for an injury but these were all in vain.

弗洛伊德兰迪斯做了一些漏洞百出的辩解，说他服用的药物是为了疗伤，但所有这些都是徒劳的。语境。

He never once took the name of the lord his God in vain, committed adultery or coveted his neighbor's ass.

他从不亵渎上帝的名字，从不和人通奸，从不想去勾引邻居的老婆。

After trying in vain to control the unruly class, the young and inexperienced instructor had to admit that he was at eth end of his tether.

试图控制这个难弄的班级但不见生效后，这个缺乏经验的年轻教师不得不承认，他已无法可施。

they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because [there was] no shepherd.

作梦者所说的是假梦，他们白白地安慰人。所以众人如羊流离，因无牧人就受苦。

Since not accord with corruption to punish, there should be a statement. Don't let the public money wasted in vain at least.

既然不符合贪污论处，应该有一个说法啊。至少不要让公款白白地被浪费。