Their efforts to revive him were futile.

他们努力使他苏醒，但失败了。

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His efforts to get a job proved unsuccessful.

他求职的努力都落空了。

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Rescuers made heroic efforts to save the crew.

救援人员不畏艰险努力营救全体船员。

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But there have also been efforts to bridge the differences between religious belief and evolutionary science in recent years.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

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

These unseen lights which shone through them upon your faith were reflections of American efforts to live up to an idea. Those characters could have been no other than products of American tradition.

作为美国式理想的产物,这些难以绘状的光,其实就象征着,你们为了理想,去拼搏和开拓。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Synergistic efforts to preserve wetlands take place within UNESCO Biosphere Reserves and Ramsar Wetlands.

UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO - UNESCO Conventions, Recommendations & Declarations in the UK

Quarantined populations have been established but efforts to find a cure have been depressingly fruitless.

BBC: Watching Australia's wildlife

They had proved unpopular with head teachers, who protested they undermined efforts to maintain discipline in schools.

BBC: Expulsions rise for second year