lost cause
lost cause 英 [lɔ:st kɔ:z] 美 [lɔst kɔz]
phrase. 注定要失败的努力（或行动）
名词复数:lost causes
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- phrase. 注定要失败的努力（或行动）
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1. They do not want to expend energy in what, to them, is a lost cause.
他们不想再费精力了，对他们而言，那是注意定要失败的。
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2. Every bat flying out of the belfry a lost cause, every whoopla a groan over the radio from the private trenches of the damned.
每一只飞出钟楼的骗幅都是一项失败的事业，每一次狂欢都是注定要死的人从单人战壕里通过无线电台发出的呻吟。
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3. But she and her husband, a builder in Sydney's west, are not a totally lost cause for the Liberals: Howard has lost her vote but kept her husband's.
但是，她和她的丈夫，一名悉尼西郊的建筑工，并没有完全对自由党失去信心：霍华德已经失去了她的选票，但她的丈夫还会继续把票投给霍华德。
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