查询词典 vain

In vain to comfort myself with the thought that I could get through more work in the winter undistracted by thoughts of cricket grounds and country houses. In vain, equally, to tell myself that I could stay in bed later in the mornings.

冬天里，我可以做更多工作，可以玩板球，可以享受乡村生活，还可以很晚起床--这只是我的一厢情愿，情绪依旧低落。

It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, the classic and splendid hotels of the Rue de Varennes a couple of paces away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies not far off; the carriages of the Rue de Bourgogne and of the Rue Saint-Dominique rumbled luxuriously, in vain, in the vicinity, in vain did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other's course at the neighboring cross-roads; the Rue Plumet was the desert; and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, forty years of abandonment and widowhood, had sufficed to restore to this privileged spot ferns, mulleins, hemlock, yarrow, tall weeds, great crimped plants, with large leaves of pale green cloth, lizards, beetles, uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths of the earth and to reappear between those four walls a certain indescribable and savage grandeur; and for nature, which disconcerts the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly where she diffuses herself at all, in the ant as well as in the eagle, to blossom out in a petty little Parisian garden with as much rude force and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World.

巴黎的铺石路白白在那一带围绕，华伦街上的那些典雅富丽的府第相隔才两步路，残废军人院的圆顶近在咫尺，众议院也不远，勃艮第街上和圣多米尼克街上的那些软兜轿车白白地在那一带炫耀豪华，驶来驶去，黄色的、褐色的、白色的、红色的公共马车也都白白地在那附近的十字路口交织奔驰，卜吕梅街却但是冷清清的；旧时财主们的死亡，一次已成过去的革命，古代豪门望族的崩溃、迁徒、遗忘，四十年的抛弃和寡居，已足使这个享受过特权的地段重新生满了羊齿、锦葵、霸王鞭、蓍草、长茅草，还有那种叶子宽大、颜色灰绿、斑驳的高大植物，蜥蜴、蜣螂、种种仓皇急窜的昆虫，使那种无可言喻的蛮荒粗野的壮观从土壤深处滋长起来，再次展现在那四道围墙里，使自然界？？阻扰着人类渺小心机的、随时随地在蚂蚁身上或雄鹰身上都肆意孳息的自然界，在巴黎的一个陋劣的小小园子里，如同在新大陆的处女林中那样，既犷悍又庄严地炫耀着自己。

We made a vain attempt to make him change his mind.

我们想让他改变主意，但都是白费工夫。

It is a vain attempt to persuade him to change his decision.

想劝他改变决定是徒劳的。

He made a vain attempt to reach the summit of the mountain.

他试图攀登那座山的顶峰，但未能成功。

She made a vain attempt to stop him.

她试图阻止他，但是徒劳。

She made a vain attempt to persuade him to lend her the money.

她想说服他借钱给她，结果没有成功。

The US struggles to hold its end but it is a vain attempt.

美国的斗争将其结束，但它是一个妄图。

She tried in a vain attempt to whistle, but her lips were too cold and dry.

她徒劳地试着吹口哨，但她的嘴唇太冷太干燥了。

He made a vain attempt to reach the drowning child.

他试图接近那个快淹死的小孩，但没有成功。

In this new architectural plan the Garden of Golgotha came to be at the centre of the new city.

Aelia 是高举他自己，并在此城内朝拜罗马诸神。

The continuous nature of peat accumulation means that terrestrial coaly rocks may provide a higher resolution and more complete record of base-level change than the time-equivalent shallow-marine strata, thus enabling the identification of highfrequency cycles that are not recorded in themarine strata.

泥炭积累的持续性质的手段，陆地coaly岩石可提供较高的分辨率和更完整的记录基准面变化的影响时，相当于浅海阶层，从而使确定的高频周期，不记录在themarine 阶层。