lost cause
英 [ˌlɒst ˈkɔːz]
美 [ˌlɔːst ˈkɔːz]
n. 业已失败的事情; 没有希望的事情
牛津词典
noun
- 业已失败的事情；没有希望的事情
something that has failed or that cannot succeed
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 必败无疑的事；无望之人
If you refer to something or someone asa lost cause, you mean that people's attempts to change or influence them have no chance of succeeding.- They do not want to expend energy in what, to them, is a lost cause.
他们不想把精力投到他们认为注定不会成功的事中去。
- They do not want to expend energy in what, to them, is a lost cause.
英英释义
noun
- a defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable
双语例句
- Our efforts to change the unfair regulations at work turned out to be a lost cause.
我们努力想改变不公平的工作规定，结果只是枉然。 - Some were wasting their energies on a lost cause though-six percent revealed they had secretly fancied the groom, with three per cent admitting they had even been romantically involved with the man of the hour before he met his bride.
一些人把精力浪费在注定失败的事情上&6%的受访者表示她们偷偷地觊觎过新郎，3%的人承认她们在新娘和新郎相识之前，和新郎曾有一段恋情。 - He is a tone deaf, so he is a lost cause when it comes to music.
他对音调一点感觉也没有，所以听音乐的时候他就无可救药了。 - You're saying it's a lost cause, right?
你说这件事失败了，是吗？ - And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause.
我会留在这，为已经遗失的目标奋斗。 - The lost Supreme Court case was not a lost cause, however.
然而，输了最高法庭的案子并非一件失败的事情。 - When you pick a lost cause, you really commit.
你拿了一手烂牌，还要继续玩到底。 - One of the toughest decisions faced by hospital staff is how long to keep trying, and when to give up on a particular patient as a lost cause.
医务人员最难做出的决定之一就是要对患者抢救多长时间，以及应在什么时候承认失败，放弃抢救。 - It was a foolish risk, taken in a lost cause, but he was itching to get to it.
这是一次愚蠢的冒险行动，是注定要失败的，然而他却迫不及待地想去试一试。 - I bent the knee because I saw no sense in dying for the dead nor shedding Bracken blood in a lost cause.
我在少狼主死了之后向您家族屈膝投降，是因为我认为给死人卖命，为了无法翻盘的败局让布雷肯家族白白流血，实在没有意义。