to no avail

You will find that as the souls of Light put themselves in places of authority, the dark Ones will try to block them, but to no avail.

你们会发现由于光之灵魂们把自己放置在自我权力的位置时，黑暗势力将试图阻挡他们，但是完全没有效果。

She insisted that you were coming to visit her last night too, so she had me scouring the hospital halls looking for you to no avail.

她坚持说你昨天晚上就来探望过她，因此她让我把医院的大厅都收拾干净等你。

Maybe you know from experience that trying to change yourself doesn't work. You've read self-help books to no avail.

从过去的经历，你或许也知道，尝试改造自己是行不通的，就是钻研自助书籍也无济于事。

Lose money playing games, video game room to ask the boss to no avail in the case, Pingmou even spilled gasoline ignited in his head.

打游戏输钱，在向电玩室老板索要无果的情况下，冯某竟然将汽油泼洒在自己的头上点燃。

He said he offered thousands of yuan to gain her admission, to no avail.

他说他为了女儿的转学已经花了几千块钱，然而都无济于事。

As he approached me, with a greeting and a smile, I looked for a dragger under his cloak, but to no avail.

当他走近了我的问候和微笑，我找了一个在他的斗篷牵引，但无济于事。

A few of his family were stood around trying to cheer him up, to no avail.

他的几个家人站在他周围试图鼓舞他振作起来，但是却一点儿用都没有。

Berkshire and Buffet have repeatedly reiterated their support for BYD, despite over a year of bad profit news, to no avail.

尽管一年来利润方面的负面消息不断，但伯克希尔哈撒韦公司和巴菲特多次重申了对比亚迪的支持，然而这也于事无补。

American negotiators were ready to withhold the tariffs if China made concessions, but to no avail.

只要中国作出一些让步，美国的协调员已经准备撤回这一关税政策，但是没有成果。

And I did everything humanly possible within my power to keep him on a treatment regimen, but, alas, to no avail.

我做了所有力所能及的事让他继续治疗，但是毫无效果。

Having tried all other ways to no avail, this seemed like the only option left.

在试过许多方法都失败后，这似乎是剩下的唯一选择。

His mother first tried to get him treatment in Iraq, to no avail; the situation simply was too dangerous.

他妈妈开始时曾试图在伊拉克给他治病，不见起色；处境简直太糟糕了。

The Circle has also attempted to contact him in the Emerald Dream to no avail.

议会也曾试过在翡翠梦境中联系玛法里奥，也是没有回音。

Mr Obermann has spent much of the past two months in talks with unions to win their support for all this, but to no avail.

在过去的两个月内，奥伯曼先生花费了大量时间同工会展开谈判，为这些措施争取支持，但都无果而终。

He tried to send his rays through the clouds but to no avail- they were too far away, and too thick.

他努力地想透过云彩但是没用——它们太远了也太厚了。

Local media reports suggest that Antonio's family tried to negotiate a heavy ransom directly with the kidnappers , but to no avail .

当地媒体的报道表明，安东尼奥的家庭尝试与绑匪就高额赎金进行直接交涉，但毫无效果。

For three days, Kasamatsu, whose coastal home had been flooded by the tsunami, called his daughter's cell phone to no avail.

三天来，体侧，其沿海家园已被海啸淹没，称他女儿的手机也没有用。

The zoo even called in animal experts to try and reunite the couple with counselling but, so far, to no avail .

动物园甚至为此请来动物专家，试着调解矛盾，希望他俩能破镜重圆。可惜，事到如今毫无进展。

The world's major manufacturers of CNC machine tools with a knife type, size range, a huge number of often dazzling, but to no avail.

世界各大厂商生产的数控机床用刀具种类、规格繁多，数量庞大，往往令人眼花缭乱，不得要领。

from a strictly theoretical point of view, this argument is not a tautology is to no avail.

从严格的学理角度来看，这种说法不是同义反复便是不得要领。