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汉语拼音：bái fèi kǒu shé

谈话一无所获。

白费口舌 [我们中国人在遇到对某人说某事起不到任何作用的时候，就会用到这样一个成语：白费口舌。其实在英语中也同样有表达这样一层意思的习语，那就是waste one‘s breath@@@@@#####]

1. 我们中国人在遇到对某人说某事起不到任何作用的时候，就会用到这样一个成语：白费口舌。其实在英语中也同样有表达这样一层意思的习语，那就是waste one‘s breath@@@@@

• I won't waste good advice on John any more because he never listens to it. I won't cast pearls before swine.

  我不再白费口舌劝约翰了，因为他从不听劝。我决不再对牛弹琴了。

• 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。

• The old man is so stubborn that you'd be only wasting your breath trying to make him change his mind.

  那个老头子太固执，你去劝他改变主意，不过是白费口舌。

• Thus they passed the minutes, each well knowing that this was only waste of breath, the one essential being simply to wait.

  他们就这样说了几分钟的话，每个人心里都知道，他们那番话是白费口舌，根本的办法只有耐心等待。

• Don't waste your breath try to convince him; he's going to leave anyway.

  不要白费口舌劝阻他了，他反正也要走的。

• And do you know, I fancy, Bonaparte really has lost his head.

  您是否知道，我亲爱的，我似乎觉得，波拿巴简直白费口舌。

• Don't waste your breath trying to persuade them, they'll never listen.

  别白费口舌规劝他们，他们不会听你的话的。

• Don't waste your breath trying to persuade him.

  别白费口舌去劝他了

• Bob found himself preaching to the choir when he was telling Jane the advantages of living in the suburbs. She already hates city life.

  鲍勃向简鼓吹在郊区住的好处简直是白费口舌，因为她早就恨透了城市生活。