to no avail

基本解释

• 无效，完全无用

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• Her powers of persuasion were to no avail.
  她的说服力没有起到作用。
• Both of them have searched for jobs for months, to no avail.
  对于工作，这对夫妇已经寻觅了数月之久，但是依然没有收获。
• I have not had any intimate relations with my wife for more than five years. We have discussed it, but to no avail.
  我已经五年多没有和我老婆亲热过了，对此我们也讨论过，却一直没有什么成效。

权威例句

• Mateschitz says his executives meet with French authorities ten times a year--so far to no avail.
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• Venture filed court papers in Germany to stop the insolvency proceedings, to no avail.
  FORBES: Magazine Article
• Procida, Chimenti and Santella tried to sell their invention to ResMed in 2009, to no avail.
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