查询词典 in vain

When being robbed of her necklace, my friend seized the robber by the collar in an attempt to stop him but in vain.

一个贼抢我朋友的项链时，她抓住那人的领子试图制止他抢劫，但没成功。

She tries to ingratiate herself with her mother-in-law, but it is in vain.

她试著讨她婆婆欢心，但没有用

Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

73：13 我实在徒然洁净了我的心，徒然洗手表明无辜。

But they laboured in vain-for they are mostly poor and often in want.

但是他们是在白白辛苦——因为他们大多数人都贫穷不堪。

Standing in front of the lily-white canvas, the visitors had tried in vain to track down any traces of a kiss or something.

突然间，一个女子情不自禁地亲吻了这幅画，她樱桃般红润的唇印在了洁白的画布上。警方在接到报案后迅速逮捕了这名女子。

We began covering him with loamy soil but in vein（此处似应为in vain）.

我们徒劳的往他身上盖粘土试图灭火但最终无用。

In spite of our defeat, all the work Hillary, Ira Magaziner, and the rest of our people had done would not be in vain.

尽管这次失利了，希拉里、伊拉。马加齐纳和其他工作人员所做的工作并没有白费。

This he stated most movingly in dedicating the military cemetery at Gettysburg:"that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

这一点，他表示最真挚动人，在奉献的军事公墓斯堡说："我们这里的高度解决这些死不得白--这个国家，以神之名，将有一新生的自由--兼论政府人民，由人民，为人民，不得灭亡，从地球上。"

Often in speaking a foreign language we seek in vain for a precise equivalent for some native word or idiom, and find that there is not any definite equivalent, and that we must content ourselves with a vague periphrasis?

薄保？7］文中所说的"a vague periphrasis"，是一种模糊的拐弯抹角的说法，即虚化的说法，这种虚化手法可能会冲淡原文的形象色彩，也就使得翻译成为一种令人遗憾的艺术。

The Mauritanians were defeated; the lands once occupied by the rebel cities were dedicated in aeternitatem to the Plutonian gods; Alexandria, subdued, in vain sought Caesar's mercy; within the year the legions were to report their triumph, but I myself barely glimpsed the face of Mars.

毛里塔尼亚人被打败；反叛的城市被夷为平地，奉献给冥府的神祗；亚历山大城被征服，企求恺撒的慈悲而不得；不出一年，各军团捷报频传，然而我连战神的面都几乎没有见过。

Neither the killing of Mr Zarqawi nor any breakthrough on the political front will stop the insurgency and the fratricidal murders in their tracks.

在对危险的南部地区访问时，他斥责什叶派民兵领导人对中央集权的挑衅行为。

In fact,I've got him on the satellite mobile right now.

实际上 我们已接通卫星可视电话了