fruitless的意思|fruitless的解释-里氏词典

fruitless ['fru:tlis]

a. 不结果的, 不长果实的, 无子的

Their negotiation was fruitless.
他们的谈判没有结果。
His struggle with adversity is fruitless.
他徒与不幸挣扎而毫无结果。
So far the search for the missing boy has been fruitless.
到目前为止，还没有找到那失踪的男孩。

fruitless

[ adj ]
unproductive of success
<adj.all>
a fruitless searchfutile years after her artistic peak
a sleeveless errand
a vain attempt

Fruitless \Fruit"less\, a.
1. Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of
offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless
marriage. --Shak.

2. Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle;
useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a
fruitless controversy.

They in mutual accusation spent
The fruitless hours. --Milton.

Syn: Useless; barren; unprofitable; abortive; ineffectual;
vain; idle; profitless. See {Useless}. --
{Fruit"less*ly}, adv. -- {Fruit"lness*ness}, n.

"Unfortunately, these appeals proved fruitless.
He is responsible for the company's growing workstation business. Some, however, think that the search for a genius who can fix IBM's problems overnight is bound to be fruitless.
Later efforts by the Justice Department and Occidental to find any such documents have proved fruitless.
On Friday, after two weeks of fruitless settlement talks, Warner filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court against Sony and Guber Peters Entertainment Co., charging Sony with inducing the two producers to breach a five-year contract with Warner.
After days of intense but fruitless negotiations, a federal judge last week threatened to convert William Herbert Hunt's Chapter 11 personal bankruptcy case into a Chapter 7 liquidation.
The Machinists walked off the job after 17 months of fruitless negotiations.
But an official of CNW Corp., the railroad's parent firm, said late Monday night such a move would be fruitless since the United Transportation Union had rejected the company's latest compromise offer.
After a fruitless wait, she drove with her two adult children to the couple's apartment in Buenos Aires' Recoleta neighborhood, leaving the 65-acre suburban estate in nearby Olivos vacant.
"I'm sure there will be amicable discussions with Maine, which will prove fruitless, after which I expect we'll move to file before the Supreme Court," New Hampshire Attorney General John Arnold told The Wall Street Journal recently.
But their attempt to appeal to the government is an implicit admission that head-on confrontation with the generators is fruitless.
It is widely acknowledged that efforts in that direction have been almost fruitless.
Linder had just completed his fifth fruitless summer hunting for Phoenician shipwrecks in Italy when he got word about the find in Magan Michael, where he lives.
The 47-year-old rebel commander was in the delegation that, on Aug. 22, ended a fruitless round of peace talks here with the government of Alfredo Cristiani, the Salvadoran president.
That dig, too, proved fruitless.
The federal government fought the case for more than 10 years, the first four in a fruitless effort to prevent the suit from being certified as a class action.
Even when they do, or if a U.S. citizen is involved, the legal proceedings are sometimes long and often fruitless.
Profits are unlikely for some years and their research could prove fruitless if regulatory approval is withheld.
So far its efforts have proved fruitless. The government appears to be holding out in the hope that an important oil discovery in the Celtic Sea - on the shore of which the refinery is located -could help to justify the investment.
A Canadian-owned lead and zinc mine was closing, and off-shore oil exploration so far has proved fruitless.
Trading sources said that intervention by major central banks to smooth out the European currency markets, largely fruitless so far, has totaled nearly 36 billion West German marks since Dec. 1.
Until it is known precisely how the bacterium causes harm, it would be fruitless to treat aIl carriers. Prevention of stomach malignancies may therefore be around the corner.
Laszlo Lang, deputy director of the Hungarian Institute for International Affairs, says that after 45 years of fruitless Soviet domination, Eastern Europe now actively wants to be dominated by the EC.
And in another move to shore up support for anti-Iraq action, Bush will confer Sunday with Gorbachev. Meetings between the U.N.'s chief and Iraq's foreign minister were fruitless.
Mengistu's government held fruitless peace talks late last year with Ethiopia's two guerrilla groups each of which has intensified its efforts to topple him.
It capped a 15-month legal battle during which, Walsh charged, Thornburgh forced two "fruitless appeals" to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., on secrecy issues.
The price was struck after a lack of sell orders caused fruitless attempts to trade the stock earlier Wednesday and on Tuesday.
Lee's efforts were so fruitless that his central New York House district was divided into seven other districts in 1982, forcing him to choose where to run.
The group contends scientists' search for a cure for addiction is fruitless and fails to address the underlying social and psychological causes of addiction.
A search Tuesday of property the parents owned in rural Brighton proved fruitless.
Attempts by Leora Reed to coax Clark from the complex to a new life with a new owner have been fruitless.

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