vainer

• She yearned in vain to make herself known to her father .
  她绞尽了脑汁想不出办法能使她的父亲认出她来。
• All was vain .
  一切都是枉费心机。
• All efforts of mediation by the third side were in vain at all .
  第三方所作的从中调解的一切努力均告失败。
• He wasted his time in the vain pleasures of smoking and drinking .
  他在吸烟喝酒这种空虚的快乐中虚度年华。
• Vain men delight in telling what honours have been done them .
  爱虚荣的人津津乐道于讲述他们取得何种荣誉。
• The resources previously committed might have been committed in vain .
  先前所投入的人力物力可能会付诸东流。
• Jones was not so vain and senseless a coxcomb as to expect .
  琼斯并不是那么一个不自量，没头没脑的浪荡哥儿。
• It is in vain for a boy to attempt to hide himself from that young man .
  哪个小孩儿也休想躲得过那个小伙子。
• There the impotent painted deities paraded the walls in vain .
  在那里，无用的、画出来的神像仿佛在墙上徒然游行。
• There the impotent, painted deities paraded on the walls in vain .
  在那里，无用的、画出来的神像仿佛在墙上徒然游行。