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Перевод: vainly


[наречие]
тщетно; тщеславно; напрасно


Тезаурус:

  1. This new life reveals more and more the gifts of God, and less and less the human efforts we vainly try to make.
  2. One of the men who had to walk down this precarious companionway was Malcolm MacDonald, the British dominions secretary in 1938, still vainly attempting to reconcile the desperate promises of the First World War before the outbreak of the Second, trying to preserve order in the British mandate of Palestine by restricting Jewish immigration.
  3. NEIL KINNOCK vainly sought to put a brave face on a night of setbacks for Labour as he increased his own majority in Islwyn to a record for the constituency.
  4. It was struggling vainly to free itself, bleating weakly, but suddenly letting out the long, piping, despairing cry that had first arrested Deborah's attention.
  5. Franca had in fact tried vainly to waken him that morning, stirring him a little and calling his name.
  6. There followed such extravagant follies as Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948) and an Anna Karenina (1947) in which Vivien Leigh vainly tried to bring some of the same magic to the role as Greta Garbo had 12 years earlier.
  7. It was really extremely hazardous, and as we stood there peering vainly into the blanket of fog it did cross my mind that we were all quite crazy.
  8. A petition calling for an inquiry into the allegations was signed by 15,118 people and a delegation headed by Raymond Wolseley of the Junior Chamber of Commerce went to Stormont to plead, vainly, for a change of policy.
  9. trying vainly to recapture.
  10. These disturbing images - convoys of refugees, unsanitary tent encampments - were initially refracted because Lebanon had itself vainly assisted the ridiculous "Arab Liberation Army" in its war against the new Israeli state; for the Lebanese, their own military failure was of greater moment than the fate of those whom they were supposed to be saving.
  11. I buy a harmonium - nearly an organ - and spend the rest of my life playing it, thickened with doleful dirges, vainly trying to lay the trauma, my only satisfaction the ashen faced, staring eyed audiences staggering out at the end of performances, primed, and ready to carry on the good work.
  12. The English language, to which Eliot had dedicated (vainly, he worried) so much of his life is here reduced merely to "the dialect" of a "tribe".
  13. Penny Downie gives an astonishing performance of self-lacerating despair as the social worker, vainly attempting to achieve merciful oblivion on a bender of drugs and booze, but I felt Diana Rigg could have dug deeper into the character of Rosa, though her prim Englishness undoubtedly makes a fine and comic contrast with Downie's degradation.

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