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Перевод: vain

[прилагательное]
тщетный; напрасный; суетный; бесплодный; пустой; тщеславный; полный самомнения; показной; мишурный

Тезаурус:

1. In the first of a monthly series, Michael Jackson hunts in vain
2. In Britain, by contrast, "the family, the church, the universities, certain associations of intellectuals, and above all the great professions, stand like rocks against which the waves raised by these forces beat in vain."
3. But no one will seriously maintain that the verses do not have a design upon us; that they do not promulgate a message - the message that all secular explanations of human life are vain and inadequate.
4. Such institutions are the envy of many Arab countries for they reflect a commitment to national identity that one will seek in vain in most parts of the Arab world.
5. All those rules were for nominal measures - money supply, public spending and borrowing, growth in money GDP - rather than for the volume goals of output, jobs and expenditure that most earlier governments had pursued in vain.
6. The direct results of the Prime Minister's aversion to the EMS are: interest rates which are higher than is needed to take the heat out of the economy; an incipient sterling crisis; the prospect of recession; jittery financial markets waiting in vain for a clear signal about the direction of policy; poisoned relationships with some of her most senior colleagues and Tory MPs who increasingly fear that her arrogance and stubbornness will cost them their seats.
7. I endeavoured to paint a picture of this scene, but again and again legions of midges drove me from the spot: I got a phial of essence supposed to keep them away, but alas! in vain.
8. Library and information science researchers keep wanting to do more research on the "information needs of managers" in the vain hope that, eventually, they will find some managers somewhere who say that librarians and information scientists are the salt of the earth, and that their businesses would fail without them!
9. It made the models' sacrifice of their modesty seem poignantly vain.
10. We try in vain to turn it up.
11. But Smart Move was fast and clear, leaving the others to chase his time in vain.
12. But all the stamping and cheering in the Empress ballroom might almost have been a vain attempt to muffle the sound of hats flopping intermittently into the leadership ring.
13. Vain idiot, Briant thought, suddenly conscious of the obvious age of his own gray suit and the shabbiness of his faded blue shirt.