He brought his arm up in a futile attempt to ward off the blow.
他出于挡住这一击的无谓企图抬起了他的胳膊。
They are a futile attempt to keep from missing out.
企图阻止错过是徒劳无益的。
Trying to please other people is largely a futile activity.
试图讨好他人是一种十分愚蠢的行为。
But a thoroughgoing effort to tame finance would be futile and could come at a high cost.
但不遗余力地去一味管制金融市场绝不是好政策，无效且代价高昂。
Nothing is more futile and more self-defeating than the bitterness of spurned love, the vengeful feeling that someone else has “come between” oneself and a beloved.
因失恋而痛苦，因别人“插足”于自己与心上人之间而图报复，是最没有出息、最自作自受的乐。
The pedal is moving up and down, stiffly, automatically, a crazy, futile movement, like a tower of dung that takes twenty seven years to build but keeps perfect time.
钢琴踏板在僵硬地、机械地上下移动，这是一种疯狂的、徒劳无功的运动，像花了二十六年时间堆起来的一堆大粪，不过却是准时完工的。
Not to mention the great many who profess a total disinterest in the election, seeing it as a futile exercise.
更不用说那些认为整个选举毫无意义的人，他们视之为无用的训练。
Intervention is an option but, despite the increased reserve levels and balance sheet position (around 55% in euros, from over 70% last year), it could well be a futile one.
干预是一种选择，但很可能是无效的，尽管储备水平增加，资产负债表有所改善(欧元从去年的70%以上降到了55%)。
To attempt a marketing strategy to encompass all women based on the fact that they make up 50% of the population is a futile exercise.
女性占人口50%是事实，但是因此而试图采取接纳所有女性的市场策略徒劳无功。
Therefore any attempt at a universal tool set also proves futile.
因此试图建立一套通用工具集 的任何尝试都被证明是无效的。
We meet at G-20 sessions and seek a futile consensus.
我们相聚在G 20峰会，希望达成一个徒劳的共识。
IT IS as if, in the past 18 months, Italy's public life had described a huge, futile circle.
过去的十八个月里，意大利的公共生活好像进入了一个无效循环。
After 19 years of futile negotiations, the elders installed a door in the wall around their land on April 25, vowing to build new homes.
历经19年无效的协商谈判后，老人们于4月25日在环绕他们土地的围墙上安装了一扇铁门，发誓要建立新家。
Hence it is futile to look for synthesis or a final resolution in his writings.
因此，想从他的著述中找出一个最终答案，必然是徒劳无功的。
It tells you that any attempt to try to specify, to localize the position of an electron in such a system is futile.
这说明你试着任何尝试关于，使一个电子在这样一个系统中，确定其明确的位置是没有意义的。
Somehow, it is harder to place the moment when the excitement of a new year turned to wariness and then to alarm and then to futile questions about the nature of time.
不知怎么回事，很难得的是将这新的一年定位成兴奋，然后转变为小心翼翼，再变为警告，最后变成一堆关于时间自然性质的无意义的问题。
The unbelievable had happened, and any effort seemed futile compared the magnitude of the event. I'm not sure there was even a place to attach their fire hoses.
难以置信的事情已经发生，与此事件相比任何努力似乎都是微弱无力的。我不知道是否还有可以接上灭火水龙带的地方。
My favorite aspect of this episode as a scientist is the idea that even science is futile in the absence of faith and boundless love.
作为一个科学家，这一集我最爱的是它的理念：缺乏信仰和无限的爱，即使科学也无能为力。
Agile development without a clear vision of the goals and objectives of the company is futile.
敏捷开发若是缺乏清晰的目标愿景和公司目标就会徒劳无获。
Any group or individual can declare their own nation, but without recognition from other states, this can be a futile gesture.
事实上，任何组织和个人都能宣布属于自己的国家，但得不到其他国的承认到头来也毫无意义。
For instance, although cockroaches have a fantastic memory, he says, trying to teach them is futile when they have bits of their body missing.
他举例说，虽然蟑螂记忆力惊人，但假使身体某部份残缺，尝试教牠们任何事情都徒劳无功。
Be forewarned, however, that this can be a slow and often futile process.
但你要做好心理准备，因为这通常是漫长而且徒劳无功的过程。
Extending the retirement age for them just means a longer job search, a futile waste of time and effort.
延长退休年龄对于他们来说意味着更长的求职时间，浪费时间和精力。
But panic is at its core irrational. Trying to counter panic with logic can be a futile exercise.
但是恐慌的核心就是非理性，任何试图以逻辑来对抗恐慌的努力都将徒劳无功。
Death has become a taboo subject, a shameful secret we ignore, hoping with futile foolishness that it won't come close to us.
死亡已经成为一个禁忌的话题。它仿佛成为了一个可耻的秘密，我们对之视而不见，还自欺欺人的希望它永远不会来临。
Whenever you catch yourself conducting a useless, futile conversation with yourself, stop it.
无论何时你发现自己正陷在一个毫无意义的对话中，立刻停止。
Whenever you catch yourself conducting a useless, futile conversation with yourself, stop it.
无论何时你发现自己正陷在一个毫无意义的对话中，立刻停止。
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