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Now grown up, for you; I am strong, and for you; I changed for you. I know it is all in vain!
现在长大了，为你；我坚强了，为你；我改变着，为你。只是我知道这一切都是徒然！
Let me not grope in vain in the dark but keep my mind still in the faith that the day will break and truth will appear in its simplicity.
我不要在黑暗里徒然摸索，却该使头脑冷静地深信白天必将降临，真理也将出现在
You must not come back, or else how can you leave me one? But there was no you, no matter how much happiness is all in vain.
你一定是不回来了，要不你怎么会留下我一个呢？可是没有你，再多的幸福也是枉然。
Day after day he waited in vain for her to telephone him.
日复一日，他徒劳地等待着她的电话。
All our efforts to persuade the old man to leave the dangerous house were in vain.
我们极力劝说那位老人离开那栋危房，老人就是不听。
We have been waiting for her to come back to see us, but (we have been waiting) in vain.
我们一直在等她回来看望我们，但我们白等了。【高考链接】
A Ghanaian family took him in temporarily, and Kwasi waited in vain to hear from his aunt.
一个加纳家庭暂时收留了他。夸西等待姨母的消息，可杳无音信。
The two halves on the Korean Peninsula have been trying to get reunited for several decades yet in vain.
半个多世纪以来，朝鲜半岛南、北两国都宣称致力于朝鲜民族统一，但至今未果。
I spent so much time on her, but it was all in vain.
我在她身上花了那麽多时间，但是完全白费了。
Nowadays, you go around like this but it is certain to be refused everywhere. It is in vain for you to hold a great ambition.
以你目前这个模样，却想到处传播你的儒学思想，肯定是处处碰壁，徒有满腔热情也是枉然的。
Paddy jumped to his feet, his face stupefied; he had never heard Fee take the name of the Lord in vain before.
帕迪跳起来了，他的面容发呆。从前他从未听见菲这样漫不经心地亵渎上帝的圣名。
Schumacher almost edged Barrichello into the pit wall as he tried in vain to stop his former team mate passing him for P10 late in the race.
大舒马赫几乎将巴里切罗挤到PIT墙，他企图阻止他的前队友在上周的比赛中超过他获得第十。
Often I even, in vain, desire to turn the mirror upside down and seek my own glory.
我常常甚至是徒劳地希望把镜子倒过来，寻求自己的荣耀。
In vain I punished your people; they did not respond to correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.
我责打你们的儿女是徒然的，他们不受惩治。你们自己的刀吞灭你们的先知，好像残害的狮子。
But it was all in vain, and I had a feeling of the most dreadful, shameful failure.
但这都是徒劳无益的，我有种极度可怕、极度可耻的失败的感觉。
Floyd Landis made several lame excuses blaming medicine he had been taking for an injury but these were all in vain.
弗洛伊德兰迪斯做了一些漏洞百出的辩解，说他服用的药物是为了疗伤，但所有这些都是徒劳的。语境。
He never once took the name of the lord his God in vain, committed adultery or coveted his neighbor's ass.
他从不亵渎上帝的名字，从不和人通奸，从不想去勾引邻居的老婆。
After trying in vain to control the unruly class, the young and inexperienced instructor had to admit that he was at eth end of his tether.
试图控制这个难弄的班级但不见生效后，这个缺乏经验的年轻教师不得不承认，他已无法可施。
they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because [there was] no shepherd.
作梦者所说的是假梦，他们白白地安慰人。所以众人如羊流离，因无牧人就受苦。
Since not accord with corruption to punish, there should be a statement. Don't let the public money wasted in vain at least.
既然不符合贪污论处，应该有一个说法啊。至少不要让公款白白地被浪费。
He still reasoned with her, but in vain.
他仍在与她辩论，但是辩论也没用。
I see that I am speaking in vain to a hardened heart.
我明白了：对你这一副铁石心肠再讲也是白费。
It was in vain. Eisenhower saw through the game.
这是徒劳的，艾森豪威尔看穿了这个把戏。
She yearned in vain to make herself known to her father.
她绞尽了脑汁想不出办法能使她的父亲认出她来。
Hartmut Mehdorn, Deutsche Bahn's chief executive, insisted in vain that the company's monitoring of staff was to fight corruption.
德国铁路首席执行官哈特穆特•梅多恩（HartmutMehdorn）徒劳地坚持称，该公司监视员工是为了防范腐败。
In the final chapter, "Markets Need Morals" , the reader looks in vain for a bit of detail about how such a code might be imposed.
在最后一章—“市场需要道德约束”—中，如果有读者试图寻找丝毫关于这种模式如何实现的细节阐述，那他注定是徒劳的。
In vain did they try to take the girl away from her mother.
他们想把女孩从她父母身边带走，却失败了。
We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain.
我们已经从每一个可能的角度提出了这个问题，但是都是徒劳。
I care not one whit about the money, but I do not wish my arcane powers to be utilized in vain in a trivial battle.
我丝毫不关心钱，但是我不希望将我的奥术力量虚耗在无关紧要的战斗上。
and I saw myself, if I ventured nearer, dashed to death upon the rough shore, or spending my strength in vain to scale the beetling crags.
我寻思着，假如我贸然靠近的话，不是被大浪拍死在嶙峋的岩石上就是在攀登悬崖峭壁时耗尽精力。
He was afraid to ask his mother to buy the choice colours, and was sure he should ask her in vain.
他不敢去求他母亲买这些高级颜料，并确信他如果去要，一定一无所获。
The only trouble was, no one could find them. Observers looked in vain for large amounts of cool gas and hordes of newly formed stars.
唯一的问题是：没有人知道那些新恒星在哪儿，天文学家竟然完全找不到这麽大量的冷气体与群聚的新恒星。
For a long time all his ponderings were in vain, then suddenly the scales seemed to fall from his eyes.
在很长一段时间他所有的锤炼都白费，然后突然下降的规模似乎从他的眼睛。
'We want to show you our commitment, ' he said. 'The time you have taken to come here will not be in vain. '
他说，我们将向你们表明我们的承诺，你此行不会白费。
Outlining his government's programme to parliament, he said the sacrifices of the Greek people must not be in vain.
他在向议会概述政府计划时说，希腊人民不能白白牺牲。
Our fervent discussion and opinion will be in vain unless we agree with and pursue what sort of content users genuinely care about.
我们的热烈讨论和意见终究付诸流水，除非大伙同意并致力创造使用者真正在乎的内容？！
and your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.
你们要白白地劳力；因为你们的地不出土产，其上的树木也不结果子。
Jesus did not die in vain. The Spirit of God worked not in vain. The Father's eternal purposes shall not be frustrated.
耶稣的宝血不会白流，圣灵的工作也不会白费，父上帝永远的计划必要实现。
eg. All his efforts to make up with his wife were in vain.
他为和妻子和解而做出的努力都白费了。
just as Jonah tried - in vain - to run away from his fate.
就像Jonah试图逃离他的命运最终失败了一样。
All the doctors' efforts to save the injured woman were in vain. She was declared dead three hours after being admitted to the hospital.
医生们为挽救那名受伤女子所做的一切努力都白费了，她在送医治疗三小时后宣告死亡。
In vain they rush frantically round from place to place, trying to escape from avenging boredom by mere clatter and motion.
他们到处奔乱跑，企图以闲聊和乱窜来摆脱无聊对他们的报复，但这是徒劳的。
He loves to show off his wealth, but this is all in vain. People still avoid him as though he were poison.
他喜欢炫耀他的财富，但是这完全是徒劳的，人们仍然像躲避毒药那样躲避他。
If out of the ashes of Labour, Mr Osborne creates a self-reliant nation freed from benefit addiction, yesterday's pain will not be in vain.
工党谢幕，百废待兴，此时此刻，如果奥斯本先生之力能助英国自立于世、人民戒除救济之瘾，昨日之痛，将非徒然。
