ineffectually
adv. 无效地,无益地
If someone or something is ineffectual, they fail to do what they are expected to do or are trying to do.
The mayor had become ineffectual in the struggle to clamp down on drugs.
市长打击毒品的努力未见成效。
...the well-meaning but ineffectual jobs programs of the past.
过去的一些出发点很好但却无成效的就业计划
1. in an ineffectual manner;
Her voice trailed off ineffectually.
她的声音越来越微弱了。
Her love was a fire playing ineffectually over a rock of basalt.
她的爱,如同一团火,徒劳地烧炼着一块玄武岩石.