ineffectually
adv. 無效地,無益地
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.
市長打擊毒品的努力未見成效。
...the well-meaning but ineffectual jobs programs of the past.
過去的一些出發點很好但卻無成效的就業計劃
1. in an ineffectual manner;
Her voice trailed off ineffectually.
她的聲音越來越微弱了。
Her love was a fire playing ineffectually over a rock of basalt.
她的愛,如同一團火,徒勞地燒煉著一塊玄武岩石.