futile
US /ˈfju:tl/
・UK /ˈfju:taɪl/
B2 中高級
adj.形容詞徒勞的；無效的
Hard work without a vision or purpose is futile
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跌到谷底也不怕！找到堅持下去的勇氣！💪 (Find The Courage to Keep Going When You Feel Like Giving Up)
- But now I want to move on to the core of your question, which is how much you love being an architect and building things that, understandably, it all feels futile.
然而，運動已被科學證明對抑鬱症特別有效。
- But now I want to move on to the core of your question, which is how much you love being an architect and building things that, understandably, it all feels futile.
然而，運動已被科學證明對抑鬱症特別有效。
為什麼那麼多人後悔去讀大學？ (The TRUTH Why So Many Regret University/College)
- So to try and argue that a university education is a waste of time and money would be futile, would it not?
所以試著去討論大學教育浪費金錢時間是沒用的，不是嗎？
- So, to try and argue that university education is a waste of time and money would be futile, would it not?
University 或我們的友邦美國所稱的 college 教育，對年輕人而言現在是否不同於過去的傳統觀念，去上大學是最高昂又錯誤的選擇。
科學新觀點：阻斷外星文明聯繫的量子力學之謎（Is Quantum Mechanics Stopping Aliens From Contacting Us?）
- Plus, any aliens that had telescopes powerful enough for quantum communication with us would also consequently have telescopes good enough to see that we don't have telescopes powerful enough for quantum communication, so they would know that sending us a message is futile,
此外，任何擁有足夠強大望遠鏡進行量子通訊的異星人，也同樣擁有足夠好的望遠鏡來看到我們沒有足夠強大望遠鏡進行量子通訊，是以他們會知道向我們傳送訊息是徒勞的，
- So they would know that sending us a message is futile and therefore perhaps wouldn't bother.
所以他們會知道傳送訊息給我們是徒勞的，是以或許就不會費心了。
真愛的印記... (The Mark of True Love...)
- We humans have an immense appetite for complicated things, neuroscience, astrophysics and molecular biology of course, but also barely decipherable books, abstract works of art and avant-garde pieces of theatre without plot or character, all of which perhaps evoke the primordial puzzles of the universe and our own always ineffable existence within it. But our veneration for complexity can reach a most painful, time-consuming and futile zenith in one area in particular – relationships. It's here that we find otherwise discerning and hard-headed people exhibiting extreme patience, often lasting over a succession of tormented years, for what we can call complicated situations. The complexities may arise from some of the following dynamics. A beloved partner who wants to commit and surely will one day but not quite yet on account of this or that factor or not entirely because of certain psychological fears or not conclusively or at least not without certain important caveats. They may need space, freedom or what they call a chance to explore though quite what was still not wholly clear, though we have asked them on many occasions. Then a partner with whom there are a lot of misunderstandings, around whom words often lose their standard meanings, around whom we may have to spend hours untangling what was truly meant and around whom gestures or deeds that we previously thought uncontentious suddenly become the occasion for major surprising aggravations. Or a partner who in principle is there for us and in theory loves us very very much but in actuality – like last week and the week before that – is constantly remarkably busy, unable to respond to our texts, out with their compelling friends or concentrated on their always extremely demanding job. Or a partner with whom we sit up late at night on many occasions with a pad and paper to hand attempting to determine where the issues are coming from, what is at play and how things might be handled before, baffled and upset, we finally have to retreat to bed a little after 1am feeling fragile and tearful.
我們人類對複雜的事物有著巨大的慾望，當然包括神經科學、天體物理學和分子生物學，但也包括幾乎無法解讀的書籍、抽象的藝術作品和沒有情節或人物的前衛戲劇作品，所有這些或許都讓人聯想到宇宙的原始謎題以及我們自身在宇宙中始終難以言喻的存在。但是，我們對複雜性的崇尚在一個領域會達到最痛苦、耗時和徒勞的頂峰，這個領域就是人際關係。在這裡，我們會發現那些原本明察秋毫、鐵石心腸的人表現出了極度的耐心，往往要持續數年之久，以應對我們可以稱之為複雜的情況。這種複雜性可能源於以下一些動態因素。心愛的伴侶想要承諾，而且有朝一日肯定
- futile zenith in one area in particular: relationships.
這條規則指出，在兩個足夠成熟、具備情感功能和可行主張的人之間，從整體上看，愛情是簡單的。是的，時不時會有一些艱難的對話，會有一些棘手的時刻，需要不斷付出實際努力。
第一部｜H. G. 威爾斯《時間機器》有聲書（第一至六章） (Part 1 - The Time Machine Audiobook by H. G. Wells (Chs 01-06))
- I wasted some time in futile questionings, conveyed, as well as I was able, to such of the little people as came by.
身體上
- For, by merely seeming fond of me and showing in her weak, futile way that she cared for me, the little doll of a creature presently gave my return to the neighbourhood of the white sphinx almost the feeling of coming home.
The Time Machine 消失了！立刻，像鞭子抽在臉上，
BBC 霍華德·古德 all 的音樂故事：第六部曲：叛逆時代 🎶 (BBC Howard Goodalls Story of Music. Part 5 of 6: The Age of Rebellion)
- It celebrates the futile battle between an African American railroad worker and a new machine designed to replace him.
這個聽起來非西方的八音階是史特拉汶斯基的老師林姆斯基-高沙可夫
- It celebrates the futile battle
它頌揚徒勞的戰鬥
10 個讓情況更糟的 CEO 道歉事件！ (10 CEO Apologies That Made Things Worse)
- it came across as a futile attempt to salvage its image.
這看起來就像是徒勞無功地想挽救公司形象。
- but it came across as a futile attempt to salvage its image.
對於所有受影響的人以及你們的家人，我深感抱歉。
委內瑞拉、中國軍演與俄烏戰爭！ (Venezuela, China’s war games and Russia-Ukraine)
- And that's part of, I guess, a campaign to convey the message that resistance is futile.
我認為這也是為了傳達抵抗是徒勞的訊息。
- And that's, that's part of, uh, I guess, a campaign to convey the message that resistance is futile.
假期旅行已經受到嚴重影響，自週五以來，航空公司忙得不可開交，有數千個班機延誤和取消。
【國際時事】呼籲阿拉伯國家幫助以色列結束加薩戰爭的呼聲日益高漲 (Calls grow louder for Arab nations to help bring Israel's war in Gaza to an end)
- Gaza's Muslim Arab neighbors have talked tough, but that's where it ends, acting more as mediators in the so far futile peace negotiations.
加薩的穆斯林阿拉伯鄰居言辭強硬，但僅此而已，他們在迄今為止徒勞的和平談判中更多地扮演調解人的角色。
- but that's where it ends, acting more as mediators in the so far futile peace negotiations.
目前，阿拉伯統治精英與阿拉伯公眾輿論之間存在巨大分歧。