in vain

基本解釋

Our efforts were not in vain.; We didn't waste our energy.
我們的力氣沒有白費。
《新英漢大辭典》
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
并且你們?nèi)舨皇峭饺幌嘈?，能以持守我所傳給你們的，就必因這福音得救。
But unless he manages to pacify the people of the Delta and so secure its pipelines and refineries, the reforms will be in vain.
但除非他設法平息了三角洲地區(qū)的民眾并保證管道和煉油廠的安全，這些改革都將只是徒然。

It is rather for us,the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that,from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain;
"For we assert," he says, "nature does nothing in vain and man alone " among the animals has speech.
他說，“因為我們主張自然演變并不無道理,而人類獨立于其它動物之外,是因為我們有辯論能力。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學導論課程節(jié)選
Specifically you'll see that the rationale for observing the Sabbath is different. God's name in Deuteronomy 5 is not to be used in a vain oath as opposed to a false oath. There are differences in the meaning.
你會發(fā)現(xiàn)兩者對守安息日習俗的論述是特別不同的,《申命記》第五章的描述是，不可以妄稱上帝的名,而不是不可以以上帝的名義作假誓，它們表達的意思。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導論課程節(jié)選

In vain has it touted the completed or continuing trials of 111 other defendants.
ECONOMIST: The Hague war-crimes tribunal