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但我心知肚明，任何争辩都是徒劳。 I know it is in vain to dispute with you. | ||
但抵抗是徒劳的，并误入歧途。 But resistance is futile. | ||
啊，我知道一切规劝警诫都是徒劳的。 Alas, I know all warning is vain. | ||
这些管理学教育界的巨头们实在是徒劳微功。 The giants of management education have laboured mightily to bring forth a molehill. | ||
把这项谋杀的罪责转嫁于他人是徒劳之举。 It was a vain attempt to shift the responsibility for the murder to somebody else. | ||
人们苦苦哀求暴君的劾免，但都徒劳而返。 Begging people to impeach the tyrant-free, but all in vain and back. | ||
我们不会与全球变暖作斗争，因为这样做是徒劳的。 We do not fight global warming because it is futile to do so. | ||
他在他们的后面高喊，想引起他们的注意，却是徒劳。 He shouted after them, vainly trying to attract their attention. | ||
在这个成功的时刻，我只能感觉到一种不理智的徒劳感。 At this moment of success I found only an unreasoning sense of futility. | ||
我从那些知道自己所做之事并非徒劳的女性脸上看到了这一点； I can do have seen it in the faces of those women who know that they're not laboring in vain. | ||
