a lost cause
常見例句
- My other brother is a lost cause.
我這另一個哥哥是注定會失敗的。 - But zoning out fast-food restaurants in cities is a lost cause — they are probably already too thick on the ground for new restrictions to alter the culinary mix.
但是想要清理掉城市里的快餐館簡直是徒勞無益——可能由于它們太過密集了，以至于新法令根本無法改變本地混合的飲食習慣。 - Presumably the companies working together on International Data Privacy Day don't believe that privacy online is a lost cause.
也許在“國際數(shù)據隱私日”上參與合作的公司并不相信網絡隱私保護已經失敗。 - If that's not a novelist's description of what a lost cause is I've never read one.
這就是一個小說家所描述的失敗的代價,我從未讀到過更貼切的說法了
耶魯公開課 - 美國內戰(zhàn)與重建課程節(jié)選 - Her answer was this and it's got something to do with how a lost cause took hold too but she said, "Southerners love a good tale.
她是這么回答的,同時也解釋了為何南方人始終無法釋懷,她說,"南方人鐘愛精彩的故事
耶魯公開課 - 美國內戰(zhàn)與重建課程節(jié)選 - To conduct political revenge so blatantly through the courts was, McCarthy was advised, a lost cause.
ECONOMIST: Warren Magee - Son knows that at this point boosting Softbank's market value in Japan is probably a lost cause.
FORBES: Overreaction - Others see the White House as a lost cause, whereas liberal Democrats, including Jewish ones, seem increasingly unfriendly.
ECONOMIST: Worried Israel: Encircled by enemies again? The 返回 a lost cause