vainly 中文意思是什麼

音標 ['veinli]
vainly 解釋
adv. 動詞 副詞 虛妄地,無益地;自負地。
be vainly proud of 以…而目空一切。
vainly hope for 妄想。

  1. Throughout a stormy autumn the u-boats struggled vainly to regain the ascendancy in the north atlantic.

    在整個多風暴的秋季中,德國潛艇極力想在北大西洋重新取得優勢,但是並未成功。
  2. Two weeks had passed since martin had seen him, and he vainly cudgelled his brains for some cause of offence

    馬丁上次見他之後已經兩個禮拜,他絞盡腦計要想出在什麼地方得罪了他,卻沒有結果。
  3. He vainly tried to mark the defacing stain out

    他試圖除去有損外觀的污跡,但沒有成功。
  4. While disease had thus become an inhabitant of lowood, and death its frequent visitor ; while there was gloom and fear within its walls ; while its rooms and passages steamed with hospital smells, the drug and the pastille striving vainly to overcome the effluvia of mortality, that bright may shone unclouded over the bold hills and beautiful woodland out of doors

    就這樣,疾病在羅沃德安了家,死亡成了這里的常客圍墻之內籠罩著陰郁和恐怖房間里和過道上散發著醫院的氣味,香錠徒勞地掙扎著要鎮住死亡的惡臭。與此同時,五月的明媚陽光從萬里無雲的天空,灑向陡峭的小山和美麗的林地。
  5. To find it was the task set him by an imperious and malignant universe, and he wandered through the endless corridors of his mind, opening all manner of lumber rooms and chambers stored with odds and ends of memories and knowledge as he vainly sought the answer

    這已是那威嚴的惡意的宇宙給他的任務。他在他心靈的無盡的走廊里信步走著,打開了各式各樣堆滿破爛的房屋,其中滿是七零八碎的知識和記憶,尋求著答案,卻無結果。
  6. Well, here he was, the great man on board, in the midmost centre of it, sitting at the captain s right hand, and yet vainly harking back to forecastle and stoke - hole in quest of the paradise he had lost

    好了,現在他也到了這兒,成了船上的大人物,在它核心的核心裏生活,坐在船長的右手,可他回到水手艙和鍋爐間去尋找他失去的天堂時,卻一無所獲。
  7. She remembered - betwixt a smile and a shudder - the talk of the neighbouring townspeople ; who, seeking vainly elsewhere for the child s paternity, and observing some of her old attributes, had given out that poor little pearl was a demon ffspring ; such as, ever since old catholic times, had occasionally been seer, on earth, through the agency of their mother s sin, and to promote some foul and wicked purpose

    她面帶微笑周身戰栗地想起了鎮上鄰居的說法,他們遍尋這孩子的父親沒有結果,又觀察到珠兒的古怪作為,就聲稱可憐的小珠兒是一個妖魔助產物。自從古天主教時代以來,世上常見這種孩子,都是由於做母親的有罪孽,才生下來以助長骯臟惡毒的目的。
  8. The papal captain have vainly endeavoured to induce his wife to remain behind him.

    教廷的隊長曾白費力氣地試圖說服妻子留下不去。
  9. He vainly hope to travel round the world on foot.

    他夢想步行週遊世界。
  10. She cast about vainly for some possible place to apply for a job.

    她無望地要找個地方申請職業。
  11. Glaucus vainly endeavoured to cheer the exhausted spirits of ione.

    格勞科斯徒然地竭力安慰著垂頭喪氣的伊俄涅。
  12. While i was still vainly trying to establish order i heard a frightful yelling.

    我正在徒勞無功地維持秩序,忽然聽到一聲可怕的喊叫。
  13. Malthus, indeed, had vehemently opposed ricardo's doctrine that it was impossible for effective demand to be deficient; but vainly.

    李嘉圖認為有效需求不會不足,馬爾薩斯雖曾強烈反對,但是沒有用。
  14. He took off after me, vainly trying to land a blow

    我跑他也跟著跑,妄想打到我。
  15. They vainly attempted to turn back the wheels of history

    他們妄圖使歷史車輪倒轉。
  16. In another style of book, the source code just lays there as a dead mass, with the prose vainly trying to vivify it

    在另一類書中,源代碼象死去的東西一樣躺在那裡,而文字敘述徒勞地試圖使它復活。
  17. To no end gathered : vainly then released, forth flowing, wending back : loom of the moon

    漫無目的地湊在一起;然後又徒然地散開,淌出去,又流回來。
  18. Tell me, good my friend, what torch is yond, that vainly lends his light to grubs and eyeless skulls

    告訴我,我的好朋友,那邊是什麼火把,向蛆蟲和沒有眼睛的骷髏浪費著它的光明?
  19. Being unable to remove the chain, i jumped over, and, running up the flagged causeway bordered with straggling gooseberry bushes, knocked vainly for admittance, till my knuckles tingled and the dogs howled

    我弄不開門鏈,就跳進去,順著兩邊種著蔓延的醋栗樹叢的石路跑去。我白白地敲了半天門,一直敲到我的手指骨都痛了,狗也狂吠起來。
  20. But as matters really stood, to watch miss ingram s efforts at fascinating mr. rochester, to witness their repeated failure - herself unconscious that they did fail ; vainly fancying that each shaft launched hit the mark, and infatuatedly pluming herself on success, when her pride and self - complacency repelled further and further what she wished to allure - to witness this, was to be at once under ceaseless excitation and ruthless restraint

    但實際情況並非加此,目睹英格拉姆小姐想方設法遮住羅切斯特先生,看著她連連敗績她自己卻並沒有意識到,反而徒勞地幻想,每一支射出的箭都擊中了目標,昏頭昏腦地為自己的成功而洋洋得意,而她的傲氣與自負卻越來越把她希望誘捕的目的物拒之於門外看著這切使我同時陷入了無盡的激動和無情的自製之中。
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