in vain

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in vain 的定义

  1. To no avail, useless, as in All our work was in vain. [c. 1300] Also see take someone's name in vain.

in vain 近义词

in vain

等同于 unavailing

in vain

等同于 fruitless

in vain

等同于 futile

更多in vain例句

  1. Asserting our right to free speech is the only to ensure that 12 people did not die in vain.
  2. This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.
  3. Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.
  4. Earl Spencer adds, “Effectively, my great-grandfather sold his children to his father-in-law.”
  5. The lack of a gun is not likely to be a major problem for close-in air-to-air dogfights against other jets.
  6. Vain also was the valour and ability he showed in the campaign against the Royalists in La Vende.
  7. The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.
  8. He went on, ruminating on the vain shadow, into which his over-heated ambition to act and to be distinguished, had involved him.
  9. Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!
  10. He came back in due time, but bringing nothing for me, and I felt that my appeal had been in vain.