1·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。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·He sees with one eye closed and with one eye opened the futility of much that goes on around him and of his own endeavors, but barely enough sense of reality to determine to go through with it.
他把一只眼睁着，一只眼闭着，看透了他四周所发生的事物和他自己的徒劳，而不过仅仅保留着充分的现实感去走完人生应走的道路。
3·The main signs of depression are helplessness, hopelessness and the sense of futility.
抑郁症的主要症状是无助、绝望和徒劳的感觉。
4·Shame, compunction, sense of futility flooded his whole being.
羞耻、内疚和徒劳的感觉把他整个人都淹没了。
5·However, we cannot hold the view that all the value of this play is just to express the illusion of life and the futility of resistance.
不能因此认为它的全部价值都在于表现生命的幻觉和抗争的徒劳。
1·The futility of this approach should, according to the authors, be all too apparent so many years into a period of reduced growth in world markets.
根据两位作者的说法，在全球市场增长放缓的这么多年里，这种做法的无用之处应该是非常明显的。
2·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。
3·I tell him I don't entirely accept the futility of neurological studies.
我告诉他我并不完全认同神经性研究的无用性。
4·The only thing that can be observed is a feeling of emptiness, being lost, deadness, futility, and so on, coupled with an apparently lifeless acceptance of everything that has been offered.
唯一可以观察到的东西就是一种空虚的感觉，失落，死寂，无用，等等，再加上显而易见地对已经提供的所有事情之死气沉沉的接纳。
5·Meanwhile, this "misplacement" also puts focus on the spirit of "trial and error", namely the implementation through constant experiments, even if it's work of futility and with potential for errors.
同时这种“错置”的也是对“试错”精神的强调，即：通过实验，哪怕是一种无用的、带有错误可能性的工作仍然持之以恒地展开。