fruit·less
adjective/ˈfruːtləs/
/ˈfruːtləs/
- producing no useful results
没有成果的；无成效的；徒然的 - a fruitless attempt/search
徒然的尝试／搜查 - Our efforts to persuade her proved fruitless.
我们努力说服她，但毫无成效。
Extra Examples- All the signs were that this was going to be a fruitless exercise.
所有迹象都表明这将是一次徒劳的尝试。 - He abandoned his fruitless attempts to get his poems published.
他放弃了出版诗歌的徒劳尝试。 - He returned home after weeks of fruitless negotiations.
他在进行了数星期毫无成果的谈判后回家了。 - They were three weeks into an apparently fruitless investigation.
他们进行了三周的调查，但显然毫无结果。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- prove
- seem
- …
- completely
- utterly
- largely
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- a fruitless attempt/search