0 unsuccessful; of no value -- 徒劳的;枉然的;无用的
The doctors gave him more powerful drugs in the vain hope that he might recover. 医生们给他服用了更强效的药,希望他能够康复,却是徒然。
formal It was vain to pretend to himself that he was not disappointed. 他没办法欺骗自己说不觉得失望。
I tried in vain to start a conversation. 我极力想挑起话头,但没有成功。
All the police's efforts to find him were in vain. 警方竭力想要找到他,但所有努力终是徒劳。
1 too interested in your own appearance or achievements -- 虚荣的;自负的
As he quite logically pointed out, no one would be vain of literacy in a society where everyone was literate.
I too hoped and waited for one until now- but in vain.
He could hardly have expounded his position more clearly: quite bluntly, any plans to abolish music are described as vain.
The overarching problem that inspired the controversy is an essential discrepancy that one hopes, in vain, is merely literary or typographical.
The reforming conductor's efforts were in vain; thus 'rue', an old-fashioned literary word for regret.
Not in vain were the author and reciter of the epic called sarvadarshi, all-seeing.
Their efforts were largely in vain, however, since the separate disciplines tended to continue on their way unaffected by the rhetoric of unity.
I looked in vain for the terms theropod, cynodont and perissodactyl and yet some 10% of the definitions are apparently devoted to palaeontology.
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