lost cause
失败的原因,失落的原因,失落的事业,迷途知返
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- : a cause that has been defeated or whose defeat is inevitable.
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When we honor leaders who fought to preserve a system that enslaved human beings, we are honoring a lost cause that has burdened Virginia for too many years.
Victor Robles doesn’t have to be a lost cause, nor does the Nats’ frail infrastructure.
I think talking to those communities is sometimes seen as a lost cause and a waste of energy, and Sam didn’t see that.
The sooner we recognize that, and stop treating loved ones who have adopted conspiratorial beliefs as lost causes, the better we may be at curbing the beliefs that threaten our democracy and public health.
There’s a lot of technical jargon involved, and being mindful of the source can be a lost cause, because there’s virtually no sustainable leather production in the US, Corry says.
But Cosby Truthers are applying their principles to the wrong cause.
So we know that boring down to the bedrock and pumping it full of fluid can cause earthquakes.
So in that sense we have gotten close to the families that have lost loved ones, be it from one side or the other.
These days weather should never cause a commercial airliner to crash.
After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.
Whether they had ever, at different times, pleaded for or against the same cause, and cited precedents to prove contrary opinions?
The patache was never seen again, and there is not much doubt that it was lost with all hands on board.
Without any known cause of offence, a tacit acknowledgement of mutual dislike was shewn by Louis and de Patinos.