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ineffectually adverb formaluk /ˌɪn.ɪˈfek.tʃu.ə.li/ us /ˌɪn.ɪˈfek.tʃu.ə.li/ in a way that does not produce good results: 无效地;徒劳无益地;不起作用地 She tried ineffectually to encourage him to eat. 她试图鼓励他吃饭,但徒劳无功。 At one camp there are hundreds of huts, ineffectually thatched with straw.一个营地有数百间茅草屋,用稻草盖着屋顶,但效果不佳。 See
ineffectual They shouted ineffectually, trying to catch the foreman’s attention. She was working ineffectually on a PhD at the time, which she did not complete until many years later. At 4.30 a.m., I am ineffectually shooing my free-range herd downhill to the milking hut. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Useless and futile adrift aimless aimlessly aimlessness airy-fairy fruitless fruitlessly fruitlessness futile futilely negation no goodidiom non-viable nugatory ornamental unrealistic unrealistically unseriousness until you are blue in the faceidiom unviability |