So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.(因此他叫他们的日子，全归虚空，叫他们的年岁，尽属惊恐。)
At this moment of success I found only an unreasoning sense of futility.(在这个成功的时刻，我只能感觉到一种不理智的徒劳感。)
If you understand how software works, you know the futility of measuring productivity by lines of code.(如果你理解软件的运作方式，就能知道按代码行数衡量工作效率毫无意义。)
He well knew the futility of trying to contend against witches, so he gave up discouraged.(他深知与女巫斗争是徒劳无益的，所以他灰心丧气地放弃了。)
Work is the way that people seek to redeem their lives from futility.(工作是人们寻求用以弥补生活使之不至于毫无意义的途径。)
You drop the mind, or it drops of its own accord because you have seen the futility of it.(你放下了头脑，或者它放下了它自己——因为你已经看到了它的无效。)
The sheer futility of it all exasperates her.(它的完全无效使她很恼火。)
That is why much of Mr Cheney's speech was a polemic about the futility of weapons inspection.(这就是为什么切尼的讲话大部分要论证武器检查的无效性的原因。)
He appeared like a young philosopher meditating on the futility of games.(他的样子活像一位年轻的哲学家，思考着孩子们游戏的无用性。)
This is very sinister, mocking the futility of everyday life, opening with the line "Fitter, happier, more productive."(这显得十分险恶，嘲笑着每日生活的徒劳，由“Fitterhappiermoreproductive.”这样的歌词开场。)
