vainly

常见例句

双语例句

• In another style of book, the source code just lays there as a dead mass, with the prose vainly trying to vivify it.
  在另一类书中，源代码象死去的东西一样躺在那里，而文字叙述徒劳地试图使它复活。
• Their father told them they could either “command respect” through their efforts, or be left vainly to “demand respect” from people who badmouthed them behind their backs.
  他们的父亲告诉过他们，他们要么通过努力“赢得尊重”，要么徒劳地向那些背后会说你坏话的人“要来尊重”。
• Many in the West hoped vainly that Mr Putin might turn out to be a liberal.
  西方许多人都寄希望于普京会是一个自由派，结果发现全是徒劳。

权威例句

• Meanwhile, Sun's beleaguered sales force is vainly trying to extract profit from its new severs.
  FORBES: Microsoft's War Of Attrition
• Instead, it is vainly trying to preserve the status quo and appease entrenched political factions.
  FORBES: Japan Throws A Dime To American Debt Junkies
• Even as terror struck Algiers, Camus was vainly urging a federal solution, with a place for French settlers.
  ECONOMIST: In search of the real Camus
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