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Перевод: futile

[прилагательное]
бесполезный; тщетный; несерьезный; пустой; поверхностный; бесплодный

Тезаурус:

1. Such futile efforts can only bring something close to contempt and suspicion among the millions of human beings who crave nothing more than a simple faith based on a credible "god".
2. Another round of talks with 10 per cent shareholder Continental have been futile.
3. It would be futile to speculate what might have been achieved had these two separate teams felt able to cooperate.
4. Life is meaningless and futile.
5. The biography suggests that Eliot was never to lose the divided sense of his youth that human life is futile and meaningless - that man is "a finite piece of reasonable misery", in the words of William Drummond of Hawthornden, a good poet who was also a great plagiarist, and a great seeker of shelter in books - but that an eternal order might be felt for, or invented.
6. Plainly it is futile to make out there is "still no clear road for lead" by nailing up sign-posts provided solely by those who make lead alkyls.
7. Pathetic, that's what you are, futile.
8. More recently General Wynell-Mayow, who is commemorated in the Church, was one of the few survivors of the heroic but futile charge of the six hundred at Balaclava.
9. The Science and Technology Directorate "will badger governments into giving more money to educational institutions it is futile for governments to spend money to increase industry's competitiveness" it is better spent on projects in educational institutions.
10. He argued that teenagers were wasting their opportunities at Dovercourt, keeping the futile hope alive that they would be adopted by rich families and lead a fine life, when they could have been using their time to constructive purpose.
11. Dorothy fought the anger that was so debilitating, so futile.
12. This is an attempt by the fish to dislodge the offending parasites, but of course where many hundreds of flukes can be involved this is really futile.
13. An appeal to the Bishop of London proved futile.