"a fruitless search" "futile years after her artistic peak" "a sleeveless errand" "a vain attempt"
例句
I "trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries". 我“哭天天不应”。
He robs himself that spends a bootless gridf. 无益的悲伤只是掠夺自身.
A bootless 4-year-old enjoys his ride on a swing pushed by his grandfather at a park in Chatham, Canada. 在加拿大查坦的一座公园里，一名光脚的四岁男童让阿公推著秋千乐在其中。
The cry brought him skulking back to his master and a blunt bootless kick sent him unscathed across a spit of sand, crouched in flight. 这么一嚷，狗就怯懦地回到主人跟前，它被没穿靴子的脚猛踢了一下，虽没伤着，却倦缩着逃到沙滩另一头。
Then the starving, bootless, ragged, stupid wretches fell down and worshipped the System. 于是那些赤脚的，挨饿的，衣衫褴褛的，愚昧无知的可怜虫就跪倒地下，对这个制度顶礼膜拜。
By heavens it is pitiful, the bootless love of women for children in Vanity Fair. 好可怜啊，在“名利
