lost cause

失败的原因失落的原因失落的事业迷途知返

lost cause 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a cause that has been defeated or whose defeat is inevitable.

lost cause 近义词

lost cause

等同于 wild-goose chase

更多lost cause例句

  1. When we honor leaders who fought to preserve a system that enslaved human beings, we are honoring a lost cause that has burdened Virginia for too many years.
  2. Victor Robles doesn’t have to be a lost cause, nor does the Nats’ frail infrastructure.
  3. I think talking to those communities is sometimes seen as a lost cause and a waste of energy, and Sam didn’t see that.
  4. The sooner we recognize that, and stop treating loved ones who have adopted conspiratorial beliefs as lost causes, the better we may be at curbing the beliefs that threaten our democracy and public health.
  5. There’s a lot of technical jargon involved, and being mindful of the source can be a lost cause, because there’s virtually no sustainable leather production in the US, Corry says.
  6. But Cosby Truthers are applying their principles to the wrong cause.
  7. So we know that boring down to the bedrock and pumping it full of fluid can cause earthquakes.
  8. So in that sense we have gotten close to the families that have lost loved ones, be it from one side or the other.
  9. These days weather should never cause a commercial airliner to crash.
  10. After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.
  11. Whether they had ever, at different times, pleaded for or against the same cause, and cited precedents to prove contrary opinions?
  12. The patache was never seen again, and there is not much doubt that it was lost with all hands on board.
  13. Without any known cause of offence, a tacit acknowledgement of mutual dislike was shewn by Louis and de Patinos.
  14. This vessel, loaded with supplies, went ashore and was lost; and one hundred and twenty Japanese and three Dutchmen were drowned.
  15. There is cause for alarm when they bring one hundred and ten ships into these seas without any means of resistance on our part.