Her voice trailed off ineffectually.

她的声音渐渐微弱得听不见了。

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ASEAN does, albeit ineffectually, now set some standards of behaviour for its members, as opposed to tiptoeing fastidiously away from their "internal affairs".

东盟确实在为其成员设定一些行为标准，尽管无甚效果。这与其小心翼翼回避“内部事务”截然相反。

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Her love was a fire playing ineffectually over a rock of basalt.

她的爱，如同一团火，徒劳地烧炼着一块玄武岩石。

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Someone, after all, will have to make those painful decisions New Yorkers go on ineffectually talking about.

ECONOMIST: New York city

But they are unlikely to experience once more Eldorado's long-suffering Pilar Moreno ineffectually berating caddish boyfriend Marcus Tandy with cries of "Marrrr-coos".

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Nothing is ironed, and there is a faint stain on the skirt that is yesterday's lunchtime soup ineffectually rubbed off with a Kleenex.

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