Second of all the motif of guards who block access to the tree of life suggests that no humans have access to immortality and the pursuit of immortality is futile.

第二点，那些阻止人类接近生命树的守卫,暗示着，任何人类关于永生的尝试,最后都是徒劳一场。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Hobbes does not praise vigilance in defense of liberty and he denounces all efforts to resist the government.

霍布斯并非要,赞扬人民维护自由的警觉态度,而是要谴责那些反抗政府的徒劳之举。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He beat on it and beat on it but it didn't make any sound."

他一遍又一遍地尝试,不过当然是徒劳“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Now we began this poem with the sense of the dreary repetitiveness in that opening phrase, "Yet once more," but here very close to the poem's end we have a vision of an end to all those fruitless exercises of repetition.

现在我们带着首句，“然而再一次的“里,沉闷的重复感开始读这首诗“,但是在诗的最后我们有一种,所有徒劳的重复行为都结束了的感觉。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We're not going to run around in circles forever.

我们并不想一直徒劳无益。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And they end this paper with the following quote: "It may be that trying to be happier is as futile as trying to be taller " and is therefore counterproductive."

论文用以下这句话作结尾：,“想变得更快乐,和想变高一样徒劳,只会适得其反“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So, hunger sets in and it becomes extremely sad and tragic, and attempts to break out simply don't work; but, it had its light moments, and I can never resist those.

饥饿来临,一切都变得如此悲惨,而尝试逃跑只是徒劳,但这其中也有些趣事发生,我对这些逸事总是没抵抗力

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The problem is, it didn't work.

问题是,这只怕是徒劳

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选