a lost cause

常见例句

双语例句

• My other brother is a lost cause.
  我这另一个哥哥是注定会失败的。
• But zoning out fast-food restaurants in cities is a lost cause — they are probably already too thick on the ground for new restrictions to alter the culinary mix.
  但是想要清理掉城市里的快餐馆简直是徒劳无益——可能由于它们太过密集了，以至于新法令根本无法改变本地混合的饮食习惯。
• Presumably the companies working together on International Data Privacy Day don't believe that privacy online is a lost cause.
  也许在“国际数据隐私日”上参与合作的公司并不相信网络隐私保护已经失败。

原声例句

• If that's not a novelist's description of what a lost cause is I've never read one.
  这就是一个小说家所描述的失败的代价,我从未读到过更贴切的说法了
  耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选
• 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.
  她是这么回答的,同时也解释了为何南方人始终无法释怀,她说,"南方人钟爱精彩的故事
  耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

权威例句

• To conduct political revenge so blatantly through the courts was, McCarthy was advised, a lost cause.
  ECONOMIST: Warren Magee
• Son knows that at this point boosting Softbank's market value in Japan is probably a lost cause.
  FORBES: Overreaction
• Others see the White House as a lost cause, whereas liberal Democrats, including Jewish ones, seem increasingly unfriendly.
  ECONOMIST: Worried Israel: Encircled by enemies again? The
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