Futility
[fjʊ'tɪlɪtɪ;fjuː'tɪlɪtɪ] or [fjʊ'tɪləti]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.
(n.) The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness.
阿琳整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Triviality, frivolousness.[2]. Uselessness, worthlessness, vanity.
阿奇校對
例句/造句/用法:
- The whole place seemed to resound about them with a noise of hollow, empty futility. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- She clung to the note bravely, though its futility was now plain to her in the glare of his miserable eyes. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- We have just pointed out the futility of trying to establish the aim of education--some one final aim which subordinates all others to itself. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- All I want to say is that my daughter'--he tailed off into silence, overcome by futility. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- All sorts of men must have been impressed by the futility of the excommunications and interdicts that were levelled at Frederick. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Is this not a contributing factor to the futility and opacity of our political thinking? 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Thus the cycle of futility is completed. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Thousands of people who hate the waste and futility of war as much as any of the orators of that evening were filled with an unholy glee. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Their efforts had been confined to low-resistance burners of large radiating surface for their lamps, but he realized the utter futility of such devices. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- There it was, it did not alter, and words were futilities. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
錄入:斯科特