Fruitless
['fruːtlɪs] or ['frutləs]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage.
(a.) Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless controversy.
伯娜丁整理
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Unfruitful, unproductive, barren, sterile, unprolific, unfertile, infecund, addle, ACARPOUS.[2]. Useless, unavailing, bootless, profitless, ineffectual, unprofitable, vain, idle, futile, abortive, without avail.
整理:康拉德
同義詞及反義詞:
[See FRIENDLY]
阿弗丽达整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Besides, is it not a shame, that the genius of Adrian should fade from the earth like a flower in an untrod mountain-path, fruitless? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- At least he would return and see, before he continued what seemed to be a most fruitless quest. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Do you think, if I were not sure of Helena's answer, I would send you on a fruitless errand? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- No one, however, appeared to profit by the opportunity; and after a half hour of fruitless waiting she rose and wandered on. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- I paced the streets by night and day, but until two hours ago, all my efforts were fruitless, and I never saw you for an instant. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Pray point out Harriette to me, said Meyler, for I am tired and worn out with my fruitless search. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Of course I have repeatedly thought of the Boffins, Sophronia,' he resumed, after a fruitless silence; 'but I have seen my way to nothing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- There was little or no interest in motor vehicles of any description in that period of the early nineties, consequently the Pennington efforts were fruitless. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- There was no record or legend of any prisoner with those initials, and many fruitless guesses were made what the name could have been. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Then I believe I can assure you that you are on a fruitless errand, and will not find what you fear to find. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- That is at once the easiest and the most fruitless form of public activity. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- No time was lost in fruitless recounting of my imprisonment. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- After some hours of fruitless search, they arrived at the unwelcome conclusion that they must go home without him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- But even now my visit may not be entirely fruitless. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- But experience shows, I believe, that it is a fruitless conflict and a wasting enthusiasm. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I had contemplated him with reverence, and a fruitless desire of imitation. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- From one fruitless care, it was turned away to another care much more intricate, much more embarrassing, and just equally fruitless. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It may be the extreme of mortal misery, it may be sheer waste of time, and fruitless torture of feeling. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- My first care, when I DID arrive, was of course to seek for her; but the search was as fruitless as it was melancholy. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- He looked, wistfully, into their faces, one by one when they passed out, as though to see which way the greater number leant; but that was fruitless. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Now, I say, Tom, be fair about this yer, he said, when, after a fruitless search, he came where Tom was standing. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- But if we look for the brilliancy and variety of color seen in our own day, the search will be fruitless, because these were unknown until a half century ago. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- It was not her fault, if the warning were fruitless. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Labouring in vain, he must end in hating himself and his fruitless occupation? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- These struggles with the natural character, the strong native bent of the heart, may seem futile and fruitless, but in the end they do good. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
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