lost cause
n.
注定要失败的努力（或行动）；
变形
复数：lost causes
英英释义
lost cause
n.a defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
His attempt to row across the Atlantic in a bath was a lost cause right from the start.
他用澡盆横渡大西洋的企图从一开始就是注定要失败的。
If there are serious defects or mistakes in taking the situation as a whole and its various stages into account,the war is sure to be lost.
如果全局和各阶段的关照有了重要的缺点或错误，那个战争是一定要失败的。
权威例句
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Primary-care research is not a lost cause.
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Eldercare in the United States: Inadequate, Inequitable, but Not a Lost Cause
Enteroviruses as causative agents in type 1 diabetes: loose ends or lost cause?
Cyclooxygenase as a target for chemoprevention in colorectal cancer: lost cause or a concept coming of age?
1. She says: "I believe that the day is not far off when we will be able to prescribe drugs that cause severed spinal cords to heal, hearts to regenerate and lost limbs to regrow."
她说：“我相信，我们能够开出药方，让切断的脊髓愈合、心脏再生、失去的四肢再生的那一天不远了。”
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2. 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。
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3. For Captain Cailloux, the cause of the Union and freedom has lost a valuable friend.
对于卡尤上尉而言，联盟和自由的事业使其失去了一个宝贵的朋友。
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4. Many of us have lost our roots, or never had any to begin with, and that can cause loneliness.
我们当中，很多人感到失去了自己的根，或从未有过什么开始，这也是引起我们感到孤单的原因。
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5. The actresses had come to raise money to fight domestic violence, but the cause seemed lost amid the event's giddy theatrics.
女演员们是为了抗争家庭暴力而挣钱的，但是在这场绚烂的演出中这个原因被遗弃了。
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6. His every utterance could cause hundreds of billions to be made or lost in the market.
他的任何话语都可能造成市场上几千亿的盈利或亏损。
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7. Various explanations have been offered for why Saif would give up the high-flying life to become a warrior for his father's lost cause.
人们对赛义夫放弃光明追随他父亲去捍卫已逝的事业给出了各种各样的解释。
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8. That may cause you to regain the weight that you've already lost.
这回让你重新获取已经失去的体重。
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9. Philip Su, who spent a dozen years working at Microsoft before taking a job at Facebook, sees a less motivated workforce as a root cause of Microsoft's lost mojo.
菲利浦•苏在跳槽到Facebook之前，曾效力于微软12年。他认为，微软丧失原有魅力的根本原因在于，公司员工缺乏进取心。
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10. This could cause the users to become lost because they cannot control the Web page and nothing else can be read.
这会导致用户无法控制web页面，且无法阅读任何内容。
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11. This will cause all changes to be lost.
这将会导致所有的更改都会消失。
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12. Disorganization can cause you to end up with late payments, lost coupons, late fees, forgotten checks, and so forth.
做事没有条理，最后会让你付账迟了、丢了折扣券、缴费晚了、忘记支票了，诸如此类。
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13. My other brother is a lost cause.
我这另一个哥哥是注定会失败的。
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14. 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。
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15. 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。
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16. If money is lost, the speculative group will cause a great loss for society.
如果是赔了，投机集团会给社会造成损失。
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17. Sensing a lost cause, he changed tactics.
当他意识到损失出现时，他改变了策略。
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18. They were so fast and so eager to get away from all of us crazy tourists with their long shiny lenses that I figured it was a lost cause.
它们爬得是那么快，是那么不情愿靠近我们这些拿着闪亮长镜头的着迷游客。
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19. That's not to say that phonon information processing is a lost cause.
这不是说绳子信息处理是不靠谱的。
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20. Finding love where you labor is never a lost cause.
在你工作地方寻找爱不是注定要失败的。
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21. He wants very much to get a job in the film industry, and he takes no notice of me when I tell him it's a lost cause.
他很想在电影行业中找一份工作，我告诉他这是失败的事业，他却没把它放在心上。
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22. His attempt to row across the Atlantic in a bathtub was a lost cause right from the start!
他用澡盆横渡大西洋的企图从一开始就是注定要失败的！
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23. Getting Epson on the R320 which is not one of the newer models seems to be a lost cause.
使用爱普生的R320这不是一个较新的模式似乎是一个失败的事业。
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24. Trying to interest my son in classical music is a lost cause.
让我的儿子对古典音乐感兴趣是不可能的事情。
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25. There is nothing we can do about it. It's a lost cause.
我们已经无能为力了，它是注定要失败的。
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26. There is nothing we can do about it. It's a lost cause.
我们已经无能为力了，它是注定要失败的。
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