lost cause

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˌlɒst ˈkɔːz]
• 美式音标 [ˌlɑːst ˈkɑːz]
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基本解释

• 注定要失败的努力（或行动）

同根派生

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英汉例句

双语例句

• And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause.
  我会留在这，为已经遗失的目标奋斗。
• Presumably the companies working together on International Data Privacy Day don't believe that privacy online is a lost cause.
  也许在“国际数据隐私日”上参与合作的公司并不相信网络隐私保护已经失败。
• Various explanations have been offered for why Saif would give up the high-flying life to become a warrior for his father’s lost cause.
  人们对赛义夫放弃光明追随他父亲去捍卫已逝的事业给出了各种各样的解释。

原声例句

• If that's not a novelist's description of what a lost cause is I've never read one.
  这就是一个小说家所描述的失败的代价,我从未读到过更贴切的说法了
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• And you can get lost in it 'cause there's so much stuff.
  你会迷路的，因为里面东西太多了。
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• Her answer was this and it's got something to do with how a lost cause took hold too but she said, "Southerners love a good tale.
  她是这么回答的,同时也解释了为何南方人始终无法释怀,她说,"南方人钟爱精彩的故事
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权威例句

• Another apparently lost cause, immigration reform, is unpopular with conservatives, but is supported by many businesspeople.
  ECONOMIST: American politics after health reform

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词组短语

短语

• Lost voltage cause mistake action 失压误动
• a lost cause 徒劳无用的事
• BECK - LOST CAUSE 失恋的歌
• BECK LOST CAUSE 失恋的歌
• Fighting A Lost Cause 争取一个丧失理由

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英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• someone or something that has no chance of succeeding

柯林斯英英字典

• If you refer to something or someone as a lost cause, you mean that people's attempts to change or influence them have no chance of succeeding.

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