英 [fjuːˈtɪləti] 美 [fjuːˈtɪləti]
n. 无用；徒劳；无价值
复数futilities
futility /fjuːˈtɪlɪtɪ/ TEM8
不可数名词 Futility is a total lack of purpose or usefulness. 无谓
Brown's article tells of the tragedy and futility of war.
布朗的文章讲述了战争的悲剧性和无谓性。
uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result
无用-引用次数：4
In ideas,with the frustrated experience ,Liu Ji basically agrees with the thoughts of Chuang Tzu,which includes futility, self satisfaction,peripateticism, life comforting, dream-like life, equality of things and so on.
在思想方面,坎坷的人生经历使刘基对《庄子》思想持基本认可的态度,刘基接受了《庄子》的无用、自适、逍遥、安命顺化、人生如梦、万物齐一等思想。
参考来源明代《庄子》接受研究
... futile adj.无用的;徒劳的;无益的 futility n.无用;无益;无用之事物 hypothesis n.假设(定);前提 ...
... hostility 敌意，敌视 futility 无用；无意义 civility 彬彬有礼，斯文 ...
... futile没有价值的 futility无效 futurenetrevenue将来净收益 ...
futile 无用的；无效的；没有出息的；琐细的；不重要的
无用；徒劳；无价值
At this moment of success I found only an unreasoning sense of futility.
在这个成功的时刻，我只能感觉到一种不理智的徒劳感。
He well knew the futility of trying to contend against witches, so he gave up discouraged.
他深知与女巫斗争是徒劳无益的，所以他灰心丧气地放弃了。
As with Sisyphus, the boulder was painstakingly rolled upwards only to tumble back down again in an absurd exercise of futility.
和西西弗斯一样，巨石费力地向上滚动，结果又滚了下来，徒劳无功。
But this was the year many thought that futility would come to an end.
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He had been waiting for an opportunity to express artistically the horror and futility of warfare.
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But relying on politicians to do the right thing is a prescription for futility.
As a team, we were all concerned that we might be approaching the realms of futility.