futility
n. 無益; 無效; 無益的事; 無效果的行動
Futility is a total lack of purpose or usefulness.
...the injustice and futility of terrorism.
恐怖主義的非正義性和枉費心機
1. uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result
At this moment of success I found only an unreasoning sense of futility.
在這一成功的時刻我只感到一陣莫名的枉然。
Work is the way that people seek to redeem their lives from futility.
工作可以避免人們虛度生命。
The sheer futility of it all exasperates her.
它毫無用處,這讓她很生氣。
Shame , compunction, sense of futility flooded his whole being.
差恥, 內疾和徒勞的感覺浸滿他整個的人.
He well knew the futility of trying to contend against witches, so he gave up discouraged.
他十分清楚和巫婆鬥沒什麼好處, 於是他垂頭喪氣,不得不讓了步.