But I put aside this reflection as soon as may be; it perturbs me fruitlessly.

但是我尽快把这种想法搁置旁； 它毫无结果地扰着我。

He spent years fruitlessly lobbying Congress to change a 1909 royalties law, which requires radio broadcasters to pay composers but not performers.

项1909年版权使用费法要求电台对歌曲作者付款，但不必对歌者付款。他多年游说国会修改这项法律，但毫无成效。

A whole year of days would pass fruitlessly in dreary business, like dashes of rain on the window-pane.

整年日子都在沉闷生意中毫无结果地过去，就像窗玻璃上几滴雨。

Everyone has had the experience of struggling fruitlessly with a difficult book that was begun with high hopes of enlightenment.

每个人都有过这样经历：在满怀启迪希望书开头，却徒劳无功地读了书。

Was it right, even to soothe his grief—would it be possible, even if she promised—to work as in a treadmill fruitlessly?

即使为了安抚他悲伤——即使她答应了——有可能像在跑步机上样徒劳无功地工作，这是对吗？

He tried to calm himself, to concentrate on finding the Horcrux, but his thoughts buzzed as frantically and fruitlessly as wasps trapped beneath a glass.

他试图让自己冷静下来，集中精力寻找魂器，可他思路就像被在玻璃杯里黄蜂样--狂暴而徒劳地横冲直撞。

For the last five years she'd been searching fruitlessly for meaning in a drunken nasty act of infidelity, and there was no meaning.

在过去五年里，她直在次醉酒、令人讨厌不忠行为中徒劳地寻找意义，没有任何意义。

" Oh, sure, " said the girl indifferently, as if all that side of her life had lost its importance; and for ten minutes Bond questioned her minutely, but except for small details, fruitlessly, about the ABC routine.

“哦，当然，” 女孩冷漠地说， 仿佛她生活那面已经失去了重要性；邦德问了她 10 分钟，但除了些小细节之外，毫无结果地问了她关于 ABC 节目问题。

It was the community organizer in him: Even while Washington was in office, he'd had to battle relentlessly and sometimes fruitlessly with the city in order to get even the smallest bit of support for grassroots projects.

这是他内心社区组织者：即使在华盛顿执政期间，他也不得不与这座城市进行无情斗争，有时甚至徒劳无功，以便为草根项目获得哪怕是丁点支持。

“Yeah, well, you still didn't realise who was behind that stuff, did you? ” sneered Malfoy, as Dumbledore slid a little down the ramparts, the strength in his legs apparently fading, and Harry struggled fruitlessly, mutely, against the enchantment binding him.

“是啊，但你仍然不知道这些事情是谁策划，是吧？”马尔福讥笑道，这时邓布利多身体贴着墙壁往下出溜了点儿，显然他腿脚已经没有力气，说不出话哈利拼命挣扎，想摆脱束缚他魔咒，但毫无结果。