a lost cause
基本解释
- 已注定的败局
- 注定要失败的
英汉例句
- My other brother is a lost cause.
我这另一个哥哥是注定会失败的。 - But zoning out fast-food restaurants in cities is a lost cause — they are probably already too thick on the ground for new restrictions to alter the culinary mix.
但是想要清理掉城市里的快餐馆简直是徒劳无益——可能由于它们太过密集了，以至于新法令根本无法改变本地混合的饮食习惯。 - Presumably the companies working together on International Data Privacy Day don't believe that privacy online is a lost cause.
也许在“国际数据隐私日”上参与合作的公司并不相信网络隐私保护已经失败。 - If that's not a novelist's description of what a lost cause is I've never read one.
这就是一个小说家所描述的失败的代价,我从未读到过更贴切的说法了
耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选 - Her answer was this and it's got something to do with how a lost cause took hold too but she said, "Southerners love a good tale.
她是这么回答的,同时也解释了为何南方人始终无法释怀,她说,"南方人钟爱精彩的故事
耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选 - To conduct political revenge so blatantly through the courts was, McCarthy was advised, a lost cause.
ECONOMIST: Warren Magee - Son knows that at this point boosting Softbank's market value in Japan is probably a lost cause.
FORBES: Overreaction
双语例句
原声例句
权威例句
词组短语
- Fighting A Lost Cause 争取一个丧失理由
- it a lost cause 已经来不及了
- this is a lost cause 这些一点用都没
- It 's a lost cause 彻底没有希望
- I 'm lost without a cause 我完全迷失了