to no avail

无济于事徒劳无功无功而返徒劳无益

to no avail 的定义

  1. Also, of little or no avail. Of no use or advantage, ineffective, as in All his shouting was to no avail; no one could hear him, or The life jacket was of little or no avail. This idiom uses avail in the sense of “advantage” or “assistance,” a usage dating from the mid-1400s. Also see to little purpose.

to no avail 近义词

to no avail

等同于 unavailing

to no avail

等同于 fruitless

to no avail

等同于 futile

更多to no avail例句

  1. Or has the see and hear and speak-no-evil stance of the Republican House persuaded him that he is in the clear?
  2. What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.
  3. These days, plenty of women are turning to online sites for no-frills male companionship.
  4. That means the F-35 will be almost entirely reliant on long-range air-to-air missiles.
  5. It will still carry a pair of Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM long-range air-to-air missiles and a pair of bombs.
  6. Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
  7. All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
  8. "Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
  9. Something remote and ancient stirred in her, something that was not of herself To-day, something half primitive, half barbaric.
  10. To-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.