fool's errand
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˌfuːlz ˈer.ənd]
- 美式音标 [ˌfuːlz ˈer.ənd]
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基本解释
- 徒劳的奔波；徒劳无功的工作
英汉例句
- Micro-optimizing the steps of an inefficient algorithm is a fool's errand.
对低效算法步骤进行细微的优化是徒劳无益的事情。 - Cliff Johnson's 1987 puzzle game The Fool's Errand was a lo-res masterpiece.
克里夫约翰逊1987年的字谜游戏《傻瓜的使命》是一个低分辨率巨作。 - You forced me into visiting him last year, and promised, if I went to see him, he should marry one of my daughters. But it ended in nothing, and I will not be sent on a fool's errand again.
不去，不去，去年你硬逼着我去看他，说什么只要我去看了他，他就会挑中我们的某一个女儿做太太，可是结果只落得一场空，我再也不干这种傻事了。 - Until you're a proficient reader of a language, writing in our language is a fool's errand.
你只有成为一个熟练的读者，才有可能成为一个好的作者。
英语阅读：技巧 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人 - But bringing them down close to zero, in government or in any other sphere, will remain a fool's errand.
ECONOMIST: The price of prudence - What they told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranged from tentative support for the plan to calling it a fool's errand.
NPR: Retired Army Generals Criticize Bush's Iraq Plan - Is the small car market a fool's errand?
FORBES: OutFront
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词组短语
- fool 's errand 徒劳无功的工作;做蠢事;傻瓜的差事;书名
- a fool 's errand 徒劳的任务;翻译
- go on a fool 's errand 作无谓的奔走;徒费心机
短语
英英字典
- an effort that is unlikely to be successful
- a fruitless undertaking