查询词典 beating

You are just beating a dead horse.

你这是在作无益的争论。

You are beating a dead horse if you are trying to make him change his political views.

你要想改变他的政治观点，那是徒劳无益的。

We say this is like a beating a dead horse.

我们说，这像是打一匹死马。

My boss tried to convince me, but he was beating a dead horse, because I had no intent

我老板想说服我当他的秘书，可是白费心力，因为我没有这个意愿。

I've already made up my mind. There's no sense beating a dead horse.

我已经下了决心，不要再白费口舌了。

Son, we talked about this and the decision was 'no'. You are beating a dead horse.

孩子，我们讨论这个问题的时候已经决定结果是没有的，你这样做是徒劳的。

You are beating a dead horse.

你的微笑，留给全世界。

There's no sense beating a dead horse.

我已经下了决心，不要再白费口舌了。

Just remember you are not beating a dead horse.

不过，你要记住，你那样做是徒劳无益的。

Mr. A is beating a dead horse on this project.

A先生对这个计画是浪费时间和精力。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。