Vainly
['venli]
解釋/意思:
(adv.) to no avail; 'he looked for her in vain'; 'the city fathers tried vainly to find a solution'.
校對:西蒙--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(adv.) In a vain manner; in vain.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Since that, we have quarrelled, and I have vainly asked him to return me my farce or pay me for it. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I tried vainly, in the gathering darkness, to see his face. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- She had often vainly applied to her parents, as well as to her uncle, Lord Carysfort, who only wrote to load her with reproaches. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Down to that moment, I had vainly supposed that my creditor had withdrawn, or suspended proceedings until I should be quite recovered. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- At first I was painfully awake and vainly tried to lose myself, with my eyes closed, among the scenes of the day. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He can influence the blood-thirsty war-dogs, while I resist their propensities vainly. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The old man saw him coming, and vainly strove to elude his grasp. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I had given him leave to find me out if he could, and I guessed that he was busily but vainly employed in the pursuit. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Your censor-pencil scored it with condemnatory lines, whose signification I strove vainly to fathom. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- So persons vainly reason when their minds are already made up and their fortunes irrevocably linked together. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- But he is incapable of defending them in a discussion, and vainly tries to cover his confusion with banter and insolence. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- I longed only for what suited me--for the antipodes of the Creole: and I longed vainly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Vainly endeavouring to moisten those dry lips, with a painful sound she struggles with herself and complies. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Mrs. Pryor stood near, vainly urging her to rise and dress. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Not the reign of your vainly-expected Messiah offers such power to your dispersed tribes as my ambition may aim at. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Thus, though words of solace were vainly uttered in his presence, he found relief in a direction of his own choosing when left to himself. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Raymond questioned vainly; the mysterious Greek would say no more. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I struggled vainly for firmness sufficient to answer him, but the effort destroyed all my remaining strength; I sank on the chair, and sobbed aloud. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Stung to madness, he vainly hoped, as many another has done, to fling the whole thing from his heart by one desperate effort. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I tried vainly to soothe her and reason with her--she was past being soothed, and past being reasoned with. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I courted serenity and confidence for her, and not vainly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I vainly pleaded my own total ignorance of music, and total want of taste in that direction. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- My mistress came out among us (with Mr. Franklin following, and trying vainly to compose her), quite beside herself with the horror of the thing. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Archer's heart had slammed itself shut in the queer way it had, and he sat vainly groping for a word. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- He would have me sought for: vainly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- She tried to rally, but vainly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She tried to stop him; but vainly; he would go on, and say it all. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Having, in that hope, vainly courted sleep for several hours, my mind being deeply impressed with the subject, I sat down. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- He set out; but the English fleet did not come his way, and he spent the summer vainly reconnoitering along the coast. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Vainly did Caroline inquire repeatedly if he would have another cup, if he would take a little hot tea, as that must be cold, etc. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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