Ineffectual

(a.) Not producing the proper effect; without effect; inefficient; weak; useless; futile; unavailing; as, an ineffectual attempt; an ineffectual expedient.

校对:沃尔多

• I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead, and found a passage to life aided only by one glimmering, and seemingly ineffectual light. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• There were also ineffectual revolts in Italy and Germany in 1830, and a much more serious one in Russian Poland. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Lily's feelings were softer: she pitied him in a frightened ineffectual way. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• But as this was an ineffectual protest, I then said, more particularly, that I was not sure of my qualifications. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• After two or three ineffectual attempts, he reeled, and fell heavily to the ground. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Not that I mean to say the latter had been attempted; but of this I am certain, if it had been, it must have been ineffectual. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The sun was low and yellow, sinking down, and in the sky floated a thin, ineffectual moon. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• As ineffectual. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Muttering, after an ineffectual call to his lodger, that he will go downstairs and bring a lighted candle from the shop, the old man departs. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The stars came out, shedding their ineffectual glimmerings on the light-widowed earth. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Miss Gertrude Farish, in fact, typified the mediocre and the ineffectual. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• To-day, as usual, his quotations fell ineffectual: he soon shifted his ground. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Mrs. Bennet's schemes for this day were ineffectual. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• The rest tramped on, or halted to fire an ineffectual volley. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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