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白費力了.
***It was a waste of effort.
*waste "浪費"、"白搭",effort表示"努力"、"費盡力氣".
My effort was wasted.
***All my effort went down the drain. 白費勁.
*(go) down the drain:(to be) wasted; (to get) very much worse 被浪費掉;變得非常糟糕
It's just money down the drain, you know. 你要知道.這是白白丟錢.
Safety standards have gone down the drain. 安全標準根本不管用了.
提示:如果在口語中能偶爾用上這個短語的話,還是很出彩的.
***a wild-goose chase
*wild goose表示"過路的大雁",chase意為"追趕".會話中常用.
Did you find him. (你找到他了嗎?)
No, he led me on a wild-goose chase. (沒有,白費了半天勁.)
n. 追求，狩獵，爭取
vt. 追捕，狩獵
