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Перевод: fruitless

[прилагательное]
бесплодный; бесполезный

Тезаурус:

1. A Mathematics class working through sums with half the children in a state of total incomprehension and getting all the examples wrong, while others spend fruitless time doing sum after sum on a process which they had mastered weeks previously;
2. This was a real benefit, and helps to explain why so many medieval campaigns rapidly declined into a series of fruitless sieges and failed to lead to any deep penetration of enemy territory.
3. The next step, he thought as he walked home, would be to investigate the missing persons list in the holiday towns and London too, if those proved fruitless.
4. I crawled in a fruitless search all the way back to the tree and then turned and crawled away again on a slightly different line, looking, looking, hope draining away yard by yard in progressive debility, resolution ebbing with failure.
5. After three hours, fruitless effort, we were driven from the river by their incessant attack.
6. This direction should always be given first because other directions will be relatively fruitless without it.
7. With this, El Cid at once avenged the death of his son and once again showed that any attempt to reconquer Valencia was fruitless while he still lived.
8. Mr Honecker chose a different image to make the same point: attempts to destabilise socialism, he said, are like "the fruitless attacks by Don Quixote against windmills that continue to turn imperturbably."
9. Rest of time must have gone on fruitless speculations as to why Coventry end without similar paperwork, could it be in post room, could it be mistake of Coventry end's secretary, did Coventry end actually have it on desk but hadn't looked ?
10. A meeting had been called at one of the local schools, another in a series of as yet fruitless attempts to persuade businesses not to abandon the area to inner-city rot.
11. Time was too short to allow diversion into fruitless and divisive argument.
12. An aerial search of the area proved fruitless, and they were presumed dead.
13. Yet speculation was actually fruitless now.