付诸东流 meaning in English
cast [deliver; throw] to the winds; all hope is lost.; be gone with the eastward-flowing streams [wind]; be gone with the wind; bury in oblivion; come to naught; consign it to the waters, eastward bound; end in smoke; entrust sth. to the east-flowing streams; forget as sth. past; give up; give up as impracticable; go to the wall; go [run] to waste; irrevocably lost; it's a forlorm hope.; leave a matter to chance; the game is up.; thrown into the eastward flowing stream -- all one's efforts wasted 短语和例子
Examples
- Thus he drowned his sadness .
这一下他的烦恼也就付诸东流了。 - How sad that his efforts should come to nothing .
他的一切努力完全付诸东流，多么可悲呀。 - The resources previously committed might have been committed in vain .
先前所投入的人力物力可能会付诸东流。 - As things stood then , his whole plan had to be cast to the winds .
当时情况就是那样，他的计划只好付诸东流。 - She sat, cool and unmoved, with her lifework falling in ruins about her .
她冷静，镇定地坐在那里，眼见她毕生的心血正在付诸东流。