lost cause
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- n.业已失败的事情；没有希望的事情
- 网络注定要失败的努力；败局命定；败局注定
词形变化
复数：lost causes
英汉双解
1. | 业已失败的事情；没有希望的事情something that has failed or that cannot succeed |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
It was, generally, regarded as something of a lost cause.
一般来说，那是一个注定要失败的品牌。
"I was lost, 'cause I had been out of school for so long. You know, I was young and had a crazy mind, " he says.
“没人会关心我，因为我已经失学好长时间了。你知道，我人不大，但心很野，”他说。
His attempt to row across the Atlantic in a bath was a lost cause right from the start!
他用澡盆横渡大西洋的企图从一开始就是注定要失败的。
It's read and replayed and ends the same way Stop expecting change, he's just a lost cause that you're waiting on.
它的读取和重放，并以同样的方式结束停止预期的变化，他只是一个失败的事业，你等着。
Some see Japan's unilateral intervention as a lost cause and say that Tokyo should pressure its biggest trading partner to help.
有人将日本的单边干预看成是一个注定要失败的举动，他们说东京方面应该向其最大的贸易伙伴施压，以此来寻求帮助。
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.
人们对赛义夫放弃光明追随他父亲去捍卫已逝的事业给出了各种各样的解释。
In many enterprises in rare earth separation, low value of the element is not one to be abandoned, as at lost, cause pollution and waste.
在不少分离企业，稀土中价值低的元素是没人要的，被当作废矿随意丢掉了，造成污染和浪费。
'If it's over, it's over, ' says the 28-year-old marketing representative. 'I don't believe in holding on to a lost cause. '
28岁的萧是个营销代表。她说，结束了就是结束了，我认为注定无果的事就不要再去坚持了。
The police searched for the missing girl for two weeks, but finally gave it up as a lost cause.
警方找了那名失踪少女两个礼拜，最后终因寻获的希望渺茫而放弃。
Trying to interest my son in classical music is a lost cause.
让我的儿子对古典音乐感兴趣是不可能的事情。
Others see the White House as a lost cause, whereas liberal Democrats, including Jewish ones, seem increasingly unfriendly.
尽管自由民主党，包括犹太自由民主党变得越来越敌对，另一些人则把视白宫政府为“丢掉”埃及的一个原因。
He speaks from experience as he humorously condemns the phony feudalism of "the lost cause" (slavery).
他根据自己的亲身经历，不无幽默地谴责所谓“覆败之事业”（奴隶制）装腔作势的封建主义。
That's not to say that phonon information processing is a lost cause.
这不是说绳子信息处理是不靠谱的。
I was hoping this trip would provide some much-needed field experience for what I feared was a lost cause.
我希望这次旅行能弥补这门缺失却重要的一课。
It was a foolish risk, taken in a lost cause, but he was itching to get to it.
这是一次愚蠢的冒险行动，是注定要失败的，然而他却迫不及待地想去试一试。
To atone for that Tyrion made an attempt to teach her cyvasse, though he soon realized that was a lost cause.
作为补偿提利昂决定教她锡瓦斯棋。虽然他很快意识到这一点也不明智。
She wondered if Melanie, in the midst of mourning for the lost Cause , had thought of this.
媚兰在哀悼主义的时候是否也想到了这一点，她不知道。
"The state department basically saw it as a lost cause, " says one state department official.
“国务院基本上认为这件事没什么指望，”美国国务院一名官员表示。
Another apparently lost cause, immigration reform, is unpopular with conservatives, but is supported by many businesspeople.
移民改革法案，明显也将失败，因为保守派不支持，但是很多商人却支持。
Our efforts to change the unfair regulations at work turned out to be a lost cause.
我们努力想改变不公平的工作规定，结果只是枉然。
If the Lost Cause, sanctified by so much heroism and so many deaths, had a living justification, its justification was General Lee.
如果这场注定以失败告终的战争、这场因为无数的英雄事迹和无数生灵的牺牲而变得神圣的战争，有任何存在理由的话，那这个理由就是李。
Are you lost ? cause it is so strange to see an angel so far from heaven.
你迷路了么？看到天使离天堂这么远真是奇怪。
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。
Not as adviser to Mr Bush; most politicos have given the president up as a lost cause.
不过，这位继任者却并非布什先生的顾问——许多政治家认为他穷途末路，已然弃之而去。
They were so fast and so eager to get away from all of us crazy tourists with their long shiny lenses that I figured it was a lost cause.
它们爬得是那么快，是那么不情愿靠近我们这些拿着闪亮长镜头的着迷游客。
Sumatra may be a lost cause, like much of Kalimantan.
苏门答腊可能保不住了，就像加里曼丹大部分地区一样。
Co-operation on fiscal reform might not be a lost cause, after all.
合作展开财政改革或许终究不会成为一项注定失败的任务。
Not everyone views the notion of real appreciation in real estate as a lost cause.
也不是所有人都认为房价上涨是败局已定。
John wants very much to get a job in the film industry, and he takes no notice of me when I tell him it's a lost cause.
约翰极想在电影界找个工作，我告诉他事早晚成不了，但他却毫不理会。
I don't know why you think that you're a lost cause.
我不明白为什么你认为自己肯定不行呢？
when to give up on a particular patient as a lost cause.
应在什么时候放弃抢救一个已注定无法救活的病人。
But that's a lost cause, says d'Espagnat, who studied particle physics early in his career.
但这是一个败局已定。据说，伯纳德的基本粒子物理学是在他职业生涯的早期研究的。
It didn't take long for Renault to decide that the R29 was a lost cause, the team halting development and focusing on 2010 plans.
雷诺没多久决定，R29是一个失败的项目，车队缓慢地研发并将精力投向2010年的计划。
Sensing a lost cause, he changed tactics.
当他意识到损失出现时，他改变了策略。
Forget it. We tried, but phase three is a lost cause.
算了，我们试过了但第三阶段没希望了
Finding love where you labor is never a lost cause.
在你工作地方寻找爱不是注定要失败的。
It will not make the British public love the EU: that is a lost cause.
英国民众是不会就此对欧盟产生什么好感的，“公共表决制”注定会以失败告终。
You fight for a marriage, and sometimes even that is a lost cause.
你为一场婚姻而战即使败局已定
Conquest of Britain is a lost cause.
征服大不列颠注定会是一件失败的事。
"It's seen as a lost cause. "
“公司认为这是一份注定要失败的业务。”
