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English translation for "白费气力"

waste one's effort on; draw water with a sieve; pour water into a sieve; catch at shadows; plough the sands; go on a wild goose chase; beat the air

Related Translations:
白费:  waste; in vain 短语和例子你不要白费心思。 you needn't bother your head for nothing. 我们的力气没有白费。 our efforts were not in vain.; we didn't waste our energy
白费劲:  chase 1
白费时间:  footle
白费心思:  rack one
白费力:  bite a filefish in the airplough the airplough the sand
白费事:  all in vain
白费力气:  bite on graniteflog a dead horseflogged a dead horsein vainmockeryto fish in the airto plough the air
白费痴情:  a boaster and a liar are cousins-germana book is the same today as it always was and it will never change
白费心机:  scheme in vain; bother one's head for nothing; make futile efforts; rack one's brains in vain
白费心计:  go down the drain
Example Sentences:
1.Anyway, they won't have a cold coal to blow at .
无论如何他们不会干白费气力的事。
2.The enemy officer tried to sort his men out , but in vain
敌军官试图将其部下整顿一番,但结果是白费气力
3.But if there had been no stony obstruction there the labor would have been useless still , for if the beam had been wholly cut away injun joe could not have squeezed his body under the door , and he knew it
就算没有石头,印第安乔也是白费气力,他可以砍断大横木,但要想从门下面钻出来也是不可能的,他自己也明白这一点。
Similar Words:
"白费力的事" English translation, "白费力气" English translation, "白费力气, 徒劳无益" English translation, "白费力气;劳而无功" English translation, "白费力气的穴乌" English translation, "白费气力, 徒劳" English translation, "白费时间" English translation, "白费事" English translation, "白费我那么多力气" English translation, "白费心机" English translation