In the end the wait was futile as I was not granted permission to see my client at least not on this trip.
我们的等待白费了，这次的武汉之行没能被允许见到我的委托人。I spent so much time on her, but it was all in vain.
我在她身上花了那麽多时间，但是完全白费了。'I hoped it wasn't going to be a valiant effort wasted, ' recalled Coppell, 'but we had our bit of good fortune with the second goal.
“我希望我们勇敢的努力不会白费，”库佩尔回忆，“但第二个球我们确实有些走运。”After a hurried and vain endeavour to thrust it in a drawer, she was forced to place it, open as it was, upon a table.
她打算把信塞到抽屉里，可是匆匆忙忙，白费力气，她只好把那封信，照原样敞开着放在桌子上。This is going to take a lot of time and determination, given how much bad blood there is, and it may not work.
这需要花费大量的时间，并下很大的决心，而且如果你与他们积怨过深，你的这些努力还可能白费。And, after all, it is not for nothing that I am punctuating what I am going to say about this stage.
毕竟，我一直在强调关于这个阶段，我的看法，并不是白费力气。Don't argue with Frank any longer. You are only wasting your breath trying to get him to contribute to the Red Cross.
不要与弗兰克再争下去了，你要他给红十字会捐款只不过是白费口舌而已。Happy to be free again, the lion realized that his kindness had not been wasted.
在重获自由高兴之余，狮子认识到他的好心并没有白费。But it is mere idleness to say that I had not lived before - that the soul has no previous existence.
但若说我在此之前不曾生活过——我的灵魂在此之前不曾存在过，那是白费口舌。