After a few futile attempts, his enthusiasm petered out.
经过几次徒劳无功之后，他的热情就消退了。
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。
Sadly, this is just another example of living in bad faith; a futile attempt to escape responsibility.
总是关于通过选择，我们要活出自己，对自己负责。
Langdon felt a familiar tinge of wonder as his eyes made a futile attempt to absorb the entire mass of the edifice.
当兰登的眼睛徒劳地试图看完整整个大厦时，他感觉到一些似曾有过的惊奇。
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。
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。
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。
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。
By the way, once again there's a bit of a rift there between Barthes and Foucault. Foucault wouldn't say "quite futile."
顺便说一句，这里巴特和福柯，又有了分歧，巴特不会说“没有希望。”
Conceptually it may look like a futile statement and restatement of problems.
这从概念上看可能是一个对问题无力的叙述及重述。
Therefore, any attempt to achieve a high degree of accuracy for pipe sizes is futile, especially as pipes are manufactured only to certain standard sizes.
因此，任何想为排水管尺寸做高精确度估计的努力都是徒劳的，特别是因为管道生产的尺寸都是有一定标准的。
他一生过得庸庸碌碌。
A man really understands the essence of life; he will not be encumbered by the things that are futile.
真正了解人生的人，不会让那些对生命毫无助益的事物拖累生命。
A man really understands the essence of life; he will not be encumbered by the things that are futile.
真正了解人生的人，不会让那些对生命毫无助益的事物拖累生命。
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