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单词

futility

读音
fjuːˈtɪləti
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释义

n. 无用;徒劳;无价值 [ 复数 futilities ]

例句

At this moment of success I found only an unreasoning sense of futility.
在这个成功的时刻,我只能感觉到一种不理智的徒劳感。
He well knew the futility of trying to contend against witches, so he gave up discouraged.
他深知与女巫斗争是徒劳无益的,所以他灰心丧气地放弃了。
As with Sisyphus, the boulder was painstakingly rolled upwards only to tumble back down again in an absurd exercise of futility.
和西西弗斯一样,巨石费力地向上滚动,结果又滚了下来,徒劳无功。

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then we are going to condemn future generationsto that same futility and despair.And so we're left with a question.
I was very angry, very frustrated and then depressed.There was a sense of futilitythat we are fighting a fight that we have no hope of winning.
“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”Camus’ contemporaries weren’t so accepting of futility.Many existentialists advocated for violent revolution
whatever knowledge I was gaining,where the futility of my quest really set in.Time after time,
and was condemned to endlessly roll a boulder up a hill.The cruelty of his punishment lies in its singular futility,but Camus argues all of humanity is in the same position.
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