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You do something fruitlessly when you keep trying and still get nothing. It is fruitless turned into a how-word: how you searched, waited, or argued. Same idea — much effort, no result — sitting on the verb. It sounds a little formal, like a story or a report, not like a quick complaint to a friend (who might just say 'for nothing').
徒勞地；毫無結果地
組成From fruitless + -ly.
同家族的字
- fruitlessthe adjective this adverb is built from
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
fruitlesslyadv
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Unproductively, uselessly.
- Few political careers start when people are in their 70s, but Hendy is actually relishing it, although he is incensed sometimes by the pointlessness of the posturing by the opposition, which keeps him up late. "The bit I don't like is getting home at 0100 or 0200 in the morning because the opposition have been fruitlessly arguing for a long time."
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。