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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
Worrying is a futile exercise.
担忧是一种无谓的举动。
This is why people (of any race and social class) turn down assistance: The simple belief that help is futile can be a powerful deterrent to social change.
这就是为什么人们拒绝接受援助的原因——无论种族和社会阶层——只不过是因为相信援助毫无价值，并因而成为社会变革最为强大的阻碍。
Barthes says, "Once the Author is removed, the claim to decipher a text becomes quite futile."
巴特说：“一旦作者被移位，那么解读原文就没有希望了。”
Any unrealistic objective is not worth pursuing sedulously since it is doomed to a futile project.
任何不现实的目标不值得去辛苦地追求因为它注定是无用的计划。
A futile effort, too: Beijing won the games, and some would say the argument.
有人说：“北京赢得了奥运会(比赛games，又译游戏)”，这么说也只是无稽之谈。
A futile effort, too: Beijing won the games, and some would say the argument.
有人说：“北京赢得了奥运会(比赛games，又译游戏)”，这么说也只是无稽之谈。
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