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- We made a vain attempt to make him change his mind. 我们想让他改变主意,但都是白费工夫。
- I made a vain attempt to enlighten you. 算我白启发你了。
- She made a vain attempt to stop him. 她试图阻止他,但是徒然。
- He made a vain attempt to reach the drowning child. 他试图接近那个快淹死的小孩, 但没有成功。
- She made a vain attempt to persuade him to lend her the money. 她想说服他借钱给她,结果没有成功。
- The teacher made a vain attempt to get the children to obey. 老师想叫孩子守纪律，但是徒劳无功。
- He made a vain attempt to reach the summit of the mountain. 他试图登上那座山的顶峰，但未能成功。
- Putt means merely a vain attempt to do the same thing. 高尔夫球的手段仅仅是一个妄图做同样的事情。
- She closed her eyes tightly in a vain attempt to hold back the tears. 她紧闭双眼，却无法忍住眼泪。
- They embarked on a wild goose chase across the city in a vain attempt to find their lost son. 他们在全城徒劳奔波，无法找到失去的孩子。
- These four men offered nothing but a vain attempt at utopia in this life and no promise of life hereafter. 这四个人只带给人虚空的盼望，一个虚假的乌托邦国度，而不是死后生命的应许。
- The two superpowers both collude and struggle with each other in a vain attempt to redivide the world. 这两个超级大国又勾结，又争夺，妄图重新瓜分世界。
- He was in long pants and long sleeves shirt, all in a vain attempt to cover up his foolhardy acts of yester-years. 老先生穿了长袖衬衫、长裤，看出他在很努力地遮盖自己的“当年勇”。
- He's excused himself to shut a door, a vain attempt to muffle the din of clashing light sabres and other frankly weird clanging noises. 海登为自己必须把门关上表示歉意，他试图减轻那些光剑的撞击声以及其他相当古怪的叮当声引发的喧闹，不过好象没什么用处。
- A tight noseband is a vain attempt to disguise the fact that your horse is not ready for the things you are asking him to do. 紧的鼻革是徒劳的掩饰，它只能说明你的马没有准备好去做你要求他做的事情。
- Convection cells of moisture-laden air continually rise, like the hotter soup at the bottom of a pot bubbling to the surface, in a vain attempt to breach the wall of the Himalaya. 富含水气的对流胞持续上升（就像锅子底部温度较高的汤往上面冒泡一般），想突破喜马拉雅山的屏障，却徒劳无功。
- Beckham confirmed that Sunday's clash with Real Mallorca will be his last for Madrid, who made a vain attempt to buy the England midfielder out of his contract. 贝克汉姆证实，周日对阵马洛卡将是他代表皇马参加的最后一场比赛，后者仍在做毫无意义的尝试想要在合同结束后留下他。
- Working energetically at their conspiratorial activities, they made a vain attempt to seize the highest Party and state power, in order to bring about a bourgeois counter-revolutionary come-back. 他们大肆进行阴谋活动，妄图夺取党和国家的最高权力，实现资产阶级的反革命复辟。
- in a vain attempt to retrieve the defeat 妄想挽回败局
- The secretary was a vain and pompous man. 秘书是一个虚荣而自负的人。
