1.无用,无益
2.无益的事
3.轻浮的言行
1.a lack of purpose, importance, or effectiveness
1.As in the war museum, the moment is revelatory. It makes me realise with sudden clarity the futility of the whole US venture in Vietnam.
就像在战争博物馆时一样，这个时刻具有启示性，令我突然清晰地认识到，美国冒险进攻越南完全是徒劳之举。
2.It was as important to him as it was to them to underscore the horror and futility of it.
重视战争的可怕和无用，对他很重要，其它人也一样。
3.Before I could come to any conclusion it occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
还不等我决定是谈还是不谈，我就看出来了，说也罢，或者沉默也罢，我的任何其他行动都不过是徒劳。
4.You don't seem to understand the futility of trying to prepare for such a difficult examination in only three months.
你似乎不了解仅仅用三个月时间准备应付这样难的考试是无用的。
5.I can well understand that everyone will be profoundly impressed with the utter futility of this sort of dilettantism.
几乎每个人都会对这种看似徒劳的业馀性的艺术爱好印象深刻，对此我很能理解。
6.So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
所以我说，且在主里确实的说，你们行事不要再像外邦人存虚妄的心行事。
7.All this and much more has to be said to demonstrate the futility of all the allegedly scientific achievements of Marx.
所有这些，还有更多的事实，据说都证明了马克思所取得的所有科学成就均属无用。
8.It seemed to her a ridiculous armada of tubs jostling in futility.
在她看来，这似乎是一个可笑的澡盆舰队，在狂风恶浪中颠簸起伏。
9.It was much more than an exercise in futility. It was an act of bravery and nobility.
这不仅仅是在履行职责，而是勇气和高尚的表现。
10.It ceases to be that exercise in detachment and passion which crowns the splendor and futility of a man's life.
它不再是超脱和激情的那种尝试，它也结束了人生的壮美与徒劳。