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单词 futile
释义
futile
adjective
uk
/ˈfjuː.taɪl/us
/ˈfjuː.t̬əl/
(ofactions) having noeffectorachievingnothing:
（行动）无作用的；无效的；不成功的
Attempts to getsuppliesto theregionare futile becausetroopswill notallowtheaidconvoytoenterthecity.往该地区运送物资的努力失败了，因为军方不允许救援物资护送队进城。
It'scompletelyfutiletryingtoreasonwith him - he just won'tlisten.跟他讲道理一点用都没有——他就是不听。
All myattemptstocheerher upprovedfutile.我想让她快活起来，但所有的努力都白费了。
Synonyms
fruitless
unavailingformalorliterary
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
useless
  • uselessWe have cleared out carloads of useless junk.
  • no useMoney is no use if it's just sitting there.
  • serve no purposeSuch warnings serve no purpose other than to scare the public.
  • pointlessShe sees cleaning as a pointless exercise since everything is going to get dirty again.
  • worthlessThe majority of objects in the exhibition are worthless junk.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Useless and futile
  • a mug's gameidiom
  • adrift
  • aimless
  • aimlessly
  • aimlessness
  • airy-fairy
  • frivolous
  • frivolousness
  • fruitless
  • fruitlessly
  • fruitlessness
  • motiveless
  • negate
  • negation
  • no goodidiom
  • unfruitful
  • unrealistic
  • unrealistically
  • untilyou areblue in the faceidiom
  • unviability
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futility
(Definition offutilefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

futile| American Dictionary

futile
adjective[not gradable]
us
/ˈfjut̬·əl,ˈfju·tɑɪl/
achievingnoresult; noteffectiveorsuccessful:
Theplanedetourednorthin a futileattempttoavoidthebadweather.

futility

noun[U]us
/fjuˈtɪl·ət̬·i/
Asenseof futility andpowerlessnessinfectedher.
(Definition offutilefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffutile

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Like thresholds for significance tests, statistical thresholds for what should count asfutileare not discovered.
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Her research explores a range of topics, including justice in healthcare, healthcare for aging individuals and populations, and the use of medicallyfutiletreatment.
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Many public health physicians realized howfutiletheir efforts were.
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The family was responsible for continuingfutiletreatment in 62% of cases, the physician in 37% of cases, and a court-appointed surrogate in one case.
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Therefore, attempts to extract meaningful information from the spectrum may appearfutile.
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The hospital had just adopted a policy specifying that life-sustaining treatment for permanent unconsciousness wasfutileand, therefore, not indicated.
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Other arguments for continuing "futilecare" are religious faith or religious doctrine.
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Other factors may lead clinicians to prematurely foreclose the prospect of recovery and view care for patients with a disorder of consciousness as beingfutile.
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Therefore, to separate these capacities seemsfutile, not only in the case of perceptual completion, but in general.
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Second, and more basically, calling treatmentfutileis never, by itself, a justification for refusing treatment.
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The world constantly renews itself, and when you look at it that way, regret and nostalgia seem equallyfutile.
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An intervention may yield results slightly worse than the futility threshold, but would not be rejected asfutile.
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A permanently unconscious individual cannot be a 'patient' in the required sense and so any life-extending interventions for such a body are medicallyfutile.
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It would befutileto develop a chickenor-egg argument over the use of the techniques, symbolism and themes in industrial and cyberpunk.
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However, business and strategic planning was often "perceived to be afutileexercise" which "can often take a low priority alongside the clinical workload".
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