futility

/fju:'tiliti/

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📖 中文释义

  1. n. 无用, 无益, 无价值

🔗 释义中的汉语词

🧩 词形变化

复数 futilities

💬 双语例句

  1. LONDON – I know from my 32 years in finance that the weird world of foreign-exchange markets can sometimes defy comprehension, and that trying to estimate sterling’s baseline, equilibrium value can be an exercise in futility.

    伦敦—32年的金融业经验告诉我,诡异的外汇市场有时候会让人无法理解,而如果你要估算英镑的基线,寻找均衡价值可能纯属徒劳。

  2. But past efforts at building a global order have had their share of futility. Anyone familiar with the history of the Bretton Woods institutions knows that they experienced as many misses as hits.

    但过去建设全球秩序的努力可谓事倍功半。 任何熟悉布雷顿森林机构历史的人都知道,这些机构的失误和成就一样多。 与过去相比,目前的秩序总体而言表现更好。

🔗 常用搭配

exercise in futilityfutility anyone familiarultimate futilityfutility a beliefof ultimate futilitysense of futilityshare of futility
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
  1. n. uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result