Explanation: Spend the effort, but did not receive results. Usage: Contraction type; as predicate, object, attribute; used to evaluate the effect of a person to do things Source: Qin Guan "pipe situation": "and not, the strong can not, sue I do not know, that's futile." Examples: Pay no attention to science, blindly rash, the result will be ~. Results: Zhuge Liang six Qishan Postscript: Zhuge Liang six Qishan Riddle: Snow filled wells
láo ér wú gōng
Charge of the effort but did not receive effective
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No. 3
And can not be strong can not, notice I do not know, that the expeditions. - "Pipe situation"
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No. 4
That futile and ineffectual. "Chuang-day operation": "Artemisia line this week in Shandong, is still pushing boat on land also! Fruitless, and he must have calamity." Jiao Han Gan "Yi Lin Mingyi of leather": "dug wells were stone , fruitless. "" Beijing the wrong cut Cui Ning Popular Fiction ":" to ask for help if it is fruitless. "Lao She," Four Generations Living Together "16:" If he stood in her back, pointers pointing to her then she will certainly put the sins of the property of losing money on him, not only fruitless, but sin not forgiven. "
n.: go for very little, bay the moon, work hard but to no avail, accomplish little, fool's errand, milk the bull, preach to the winds wash a blackamor white
v.: labor to no purpose, make futile efforts, plow the sand, beat the air
Thesaurus
_drop_ a bucket into an empty well, a cup of water can't put out the fire on a carload of wood, be of no avail (=without avail), put a halter round one's neck, make a law only to fall foul of it oneself; be hoist with or by one’ s own petard; get caught in one’ s own trap, suicide, Moths Firefighting, Coke boil lapidation, Eggs and stone fight, whoever plays with fire will perish by fire, Cannibalism undesirable consequence, dig one’ s own grave, bring blame on oneself, make self-criticism as one who draws a fire against oneself, art of writing a composition Self-harm, a _drop_ in the bucket
Antonym
Fain hair, Highly effective, Chuikang See m, Soratani microphone, be immediately effective, Tatemi result, Effective