lost cause

英 [ˌlɒst ˈkɔːz]

美 [ˌlɔːst ˈkɔːz]

n.  业已失败的事情; 没有希望的事情

牛津词典

noun

• 业已失败的事情；没有希望的事情
  something that has failed or that cannot succeed

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 必败无疑的事；无望之人
  If you refer to something or someone asa lost cause, you mean that people's attempts to change or influence them have no chance of succeeding.
  1. 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。

英英释义

noun

• a defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable

双语例句

• Some were wasting their energies on a lost cause though-six percent revealed they had secretly fancied the groom, with three per cent admitting they had even been romantically involved with the man of the hour before he met his bride.
  一些人把精力浪费在注定失败的事情上&6%的受访者表示她们偷偷地觊觎过新郎，3%的人承认她们在新娘和新郎相识之前，和新郎曾有一段恋情。
• Our efforts to change the unfair regulations at work turned out to be a lost cause.
  我们努力想改变不公平的工作规定，结果只是枉然。
• I bent the knee because I saw no sense in dying for the dead nor shedding Bracken blood in a lost cause.
  我在少狼主死了之后向您家族屈膝投降，是因为我认为给死人卖命，为了无法翻盘的败局让布雷肯家族白白流血，实在没有意义。
• The implementation of sentence of imprisonment is mandatory. Once this power is lost of control and supervision, it will cause terrible impact. Therefore, such powers must be strictly monitored to be correctly used.
  监禁刑执行具有强制性的特点，但是这种权力一旦失去制约和监督就会产生可怕的后果，所以对这种权力必须依法进行严格监督，使之得到正确的行使和运用。
• But that's a lost cause, says d'Espagnat, who studied particle physics early in his career.
  但这是一个败局已定。据说，伯纳德的基本粒子物理学是在他职业生涯的早期研究的。
• 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。
• He is a tone deaf, so he is a lost cause when it comes to music.
  他对音调一点感觉也没有，所以听音乐的时候他就无可救药了。
• I've tried three times to get my book back from her but it's a lost cause.
  我已经三次试图从她那儿把我的书要回来，可是一点都没用。
• 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。
• It not only delay the time of drilling 、 extend drilling period 、 spend a lot of lost circulation material, but also cause a series of accident such as sticking 、 well spout 、 collapse.
  它不仅会延误钻井作业时间，延长钻井周期，耗费大量堵漏材料，还会引起卡钻、井喷、井塌等一系列复杂情况。