There is no time at all for vain dispute.
根本没有时间进行无谓的争执。
Parents campaigned in vain for her reinstatement.
家长们为她的复职而奔波，但是毫无结果。
You should never blame the boy for the result of the test, for he had tried his best though all are in vain.
你不该责怪这个男孩成绩不佳，因为尽管一切都是徒劳，他也已经尽了最大努力。
It was a vain attempt to shift the responsibility for the murder to somebody else.
把这项谋杀的罪责转嫁于他人是徒劳之举。
She searched in vain for her passport.
她翻找自己的护照，但没找着。
He stopped at the door, waiting in vain for her to acknowledge his presence.
他停在门口，徒然地等着她跟自己打招呼。
They sought in vain for somewhere to shelter.
他们怎么也找不到一个藏身的地方。
His efforts to raise money for his program were in vain because no one showed any intention to take a cent out of their pockets.
他为自己的项目募集资金的努力白费了，因为没有人表现出要从口袋掏钱的意思。
Drug companies have spent billions of dollars searching for therapies to reverse or significantly slow Alzheimer's disease, but in vain.
医药公司已经花费数十亿美元以寻找能逆转或显著减缓阿尔茨海默病的治疗方法，但毫无结果。
"He must be swimming out to us," Starkey said, when they had looked for him in vain.
“他一定是游泳来的。”斯塔奇说，他们想看他，却没找到。
There were once a man and a woman who had long in vain wished for a child.
从前，有一对男女，他们一直想要个孩子，但一直没有实现。
Jeff searched in vain for Rosie in the next four days.
接下来的四天里，杰夫一直在寻找罗西，但没有找到。
Mike told me yesterday that he had been looking in vain for a job in the art gallery.
迈克昨天告诉我，他一直在找美术馆的工作，但没有找到。
I have searched in vain for a weak performance in these "Rouge et Noir" sets.
我在《红与黑》中寻找薄弱的表演，但没有找到。
If your compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
如果你跟别人攀比，你会变得虚荣而痛苦。因为那总有比你更好和更尖端的人。
In the final chapter, “Markets Need Morals”, the reader looks in vain for a bit of detail about how such a code might be imposed.
在最后一章—“市场需要道德约束”—中，如果有读者试图寻找丝毫关于这种模式如何实现的细节阐述，那他注定是徒劳的。
As neatly stacked shelves began to writhe and wobble, staff did not rush for cover. Instead, they tried - mostly in vain - to stop bottles of soy sauce and packets of miso crashing to the floor.
当整齐摆放的货架开始摇摆晃动时，店员们不是急忙去找藏身之地，而是试图阻止——这大抵上是徒劳的——酱油瓶和味噌酱盒滚落到地板上。
You'll look for it in vain in most of our dancers.
在我们大多数舞者身上，你只能徒劳地追寻它。
For several years, manufacturers struggled in vain to convince the public to buy new models, but consumers couldn't find any reason to part with their perfectly functional television sets.
生产厂家花费多年说服民众购买新款电视机，但一切都是白费力气，顾客没有任何理由卖掉自己功能完备的电视机。
She springs up to the window again, screaming for help in vain.
她再次冲到窗边，徒劳地喊叫，寻求帮助。
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
我不废掉神的恩。义若是借着律法得的，基督就是徒然死了。
Fight for us, o God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements.
哦上帝，我们为自己而活，所以我们不应该麻木的随波逐流，不应该在自负中盲目愚蠢下去，不应该在空虚的兴奋中消磨时光。
For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain.
弟兄们，你们自己原晓得我们进到你们那里，并不是徒然的。
At Calais, he wandered for an hour through the deserted streets, and in the silent shops listened in vain to telephones that never rang.
在加来（法国北部港市——译注），他在空旷的街道上逛游了一个小时，在寂静的商店里没有听到一声电话铃的响声。
If the kids find their grandparents' language uncool, all of the well-intentioned outside help by linguists is usually in vain, except for preserving the language as a museum-piece.
如果孩子们发现他们的祖辈们的语言不够酷，那么语言学家们除了将该语言作为古董保存起来外，其他所有善意的外界帮助通常是徒劳的。
If the kids find their grandparents' language uncool, all of the well-intentioned outside help by linguists is usually in vain, except for preserving the language as a museum-piece.
如果孩子们发现他们的祖辈们的语言不够酷，那么语言学家们除了将该语言作为古董保存起来外，其他所有善意的外界帮助通常是徒劳的。
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