I'm afraid all my efforts were in vain .

我担心我的努力全白费了

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As we traveled from island to island, we searched the cliffs and rocks in vain for nesting puffins

我们从一个岛走到另一个岛,在峭壁上和岩石间寻找海鸭,但却枉费徒劳。

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All our work was in vain .

我们的工作全都白干了.

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Our labor was in vain .

我们的劳动是白费力气

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Our efforts were not in vain and the situation began to improve.

我们的努力没有白费,形势开始好转。

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All our entreaties were in vain .

我们的乞求全是枉然。

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We protested in vain .

我们抗议无结果。

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We tried to persuade him not to go swimming, but in vain .

我们力图说服他不去游泳,可他就是不听。

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We tried everything to make the ramrod guard move, but all in vain

我们千方百计想让这个死板的卫兵移动一下,但都无济于事。

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We tried everything to make the ramrod guard move,but all in vain .

我们千方百计想让这个死板的卫兵移动一下,但都无济于事。

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We tried to engage him in conversation, but in vain .

我们设法使他和我们谈话,但没成功。

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It was in vain that we tried to find his mother.

我们设法寻找他的母亲,但毫无结果。

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All our work was in vain .

我们所做的一切都徒然。

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We tried in vain to make him change his mind.

我们想使他改变主意,结果是白费心机。

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We tried in vain to break down the big rock into smaller pieces with sledgehammers

我们想用大铁锤把这块大石头打碎,可是怎么也不行。

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I tried to fight against sleep, but in vain .

我努力想不睡着,可就是办不到。

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I will give you an eagle with outstretched wings, holding in its claws a prey which tries in vain to escape, and bearing this device--Tenax."

我让你猜一谜,有一只展开双翅的老鹰,它的脚爪抓住了一只猎物,这个猎物想逃跑,但又逃不了,它的名字就叫做--Tenax[拉丁文:固执]。”

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I pleaded for him in vain .

我为他辩护,但无效。

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I pleaded for him in vain

我为他辩护未成。

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My endeavors to bring about a settlement were ended in vain .

我想达成和解的努力均归徒然。

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In vain I tried to keep back my tears.

我怎么也忍不住我的眼泪。

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I questioned her, but in vain ; she would tell me nothing, and I departed

我追问她是什么事,但没用,她什么也不肯告诉我,于是我就走了。

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It is in vain , sir, to extenuate the matter

先生,大事化小,小事化无的作法无济于事。

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Now he slipped his arm about her and she struggled, but in vain

现在他顺手抱住了她,她挣扎着,但是没有用。

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In vain the various actors tried to win the favour of the great stage sultan

许多演员指望博得伟大的舞台之王的赏识,可是都没有成功。

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Calls to the florist were always in vain --it was a cash purchase

询问卖花的人吧,也总无结果,因为那是用现金付账的。

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I racked my brains in vain trying to change him.

要想改变他,简直是枉费心机。

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Perhaps because so many people had died in the war, the unspent life energy of all those who had died in vain merged into the vital force of spring

也许因为战事中死人太多了,枉死者没消磨掉的生命力都迸作春天的生意。

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One sighs to no purpose, the other yearns in vain

一个枉自嗟呀,一个空劳牵挂.

属类：文学表达-中文名著-红楼梦

The pedestrian, too, knowingly jaywalks in the face of fast-moving traffic,tragically, many paid with their precious lives in vain

一些行人也明知故犯地乱穿越马路,最终不幸成为轮下亡魂。

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