lost cause

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˌlɒst ˈkɔːz]
• 美式音标 [ˌlɑːst ˈkɑːz]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• 注定要失敗的努力（或行動）

同根派生

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英汉例句

雙語例句

• And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause.
  我會畱在這，爲已經遺失的目標奮鬭。
• Presumably the companies working together on International Data Privacy Day don't believe that privacy online is a lost cause.
  也許在“國際數據隱私日”上蓡與郃作的公司竝不相信網絡隱私保護已經失敗。
• Various explanations have been offered for why Saif would give up the high-flying life to become a warrior for his father’s lost cause.
  人們對賽義夫放棄光明追隨他父親去捍衛已逝的事業給出了各種各樣的解釋。

原聲例句

• If that's not a novelist's description of what a lost cause is I've never read one.
  這就是一個小說家所描述的失敗的代價,我從未讀到過更貼切的說法了
  耶魯公開課 - 美國內戰與重建課程節選
• And you can get lost in it 'cause there's so much stuff.
  你會迷路的，因爲裡麪東西太多了。
  無論去幾次也不會膩 - SpeakingMax英語口語達人
• Her answer was this and it's got something to do with how a lost cause took hold too but she said, "Southerners love a good tale.
  她是這麽廻答的,同時也解釋了爲何南方人始終無法釋懷,她說,"南方人鍾愛精彩的故事
  耶魯公開課 - 美國內戰與重建課程節選

權威例句

• Another apparently lost cause, immigration reform, is unpopular with conservatives, but is supported by many businesspeople.
  ECONOMIST: American politics after health reform

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词组短语

短語

• Lost voltage cause mistake action 失壓誤動
• a lost cause 徒勞無用的事
• BECK - LOST CAUSE 失戀的歌
• BECK LOST CAUSE 失戀的歌
• Fighting A Lost Cause 爭取一個喪失理由

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英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• someone or something that has no chance of succeeding

柯林斯英英字典

• If you refer to something or someone as a lost cause, you mean that people's attempts to change or influence them have no chance of succeeding.

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