lost cause

英 [ˌlɒst ˈkɔːz]

美 [ˌlɔːst ˈkɔːz]

n. 业已失败的事情; 没有希望的事情

牛津词典

noun

业已失败的事情；没有希望的事情
something that has failed or that cannot succeed

柯林斯词典

N-COUNT 必败无疑的事；无望之人
If you refer to something or someone asa lost cause, you mean that people's attempts to change or influence them have no chance of succeeding.
1. They do not want to expend energy in what, to them, is a lost cause.
  他们不想把精力投到他们认为注定不会成功的事中去。

英英释义

noun

a defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable

双语例句

The fires in Complex is prone to make tremendous economic lost and cause lots of death because of the huge interior space, large fire load, complicated candidate and the difficulty of egress.
建筑综合体内部功能和空间复杂，火灾荷载大，人员复杂，容易形成火灾，而且火灾发生后疏散不易，容易造成严重的人员伤亡和经济损失。
Finding love where you labor is never a lost cause.
在你工作地方寻找爱不是注定要失败的。
I bent the knee because I saw no sense in dying for the dead nor shedding Bracken blood in a lost cause.
我在少狼主死了之后向您家族屈膝投降，是因为我认为给死人卖命，为了无法翻盘的败局让布雷肯家族白白流血，实在没有意义。
He is a tone deaf, so he is a lost cause when it comes to music.
他对音调一点感觉也没有，所以听音乐的时候他就无可救药了。
Shannon, I assure you and all who have lost a loved one that our cause is just, and our country will never forget the debt we owe Micheal and all who gave their lives for freedom.
香农，我向你，以及所有永失我爱的人们保证，我们的目标是伸张正义，这个国家永远不会忘记我们对米歇尔，以及所有为自由奉献生命者所欠下的债。
When you pick a lost cause, you really commit.
你拿了一手烂牌，还要继续玩到底。
His attempt to row across the Atlantic in a bathtub was a lost cause right from the start!
他用澡盆横渡大西洋的企图从一开始就是注定要失败的！
But that's a lost cause, says d'Espagnat, who studied particle physics early in his career.
但这是一个败局已定。据说，伯纳德的基本粒子物理学是在他职业生涯的早期研究的。
He wants very much to get a job in the film industry, and he takes no notice of me when I tell him it's a lost cause.
他很想在电影行业中找一份工作，我告诉他这是失败的事业，他却没把它放在心上。
The lost Supreme Court case was not a lost cause, however.
然而，输了最高法庭的案子并非一件失败的事情。