of no avail

基本解释

Weapons are of no avail without the people who use them.
衹有武器而沒有使用它們的人，武器是空的。
The people who stood on the avenue tried to extinguish the fire, but it's of no avail.
站在林廕道上的人們想熄滅大火，但不起作用。
This I tried —though putting pictures straight is no habit of mine—but it was of no avail.
我嘗試了這種方法——盡琯把畫掛正竝不是我的習慣——但毫無傚果。

However, the human rights situation in Burma is far more severe, and Washington has had sanctions on the military junta for the most of nineteen years to virtually no avail.
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If she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, fought through rounds of chemo and radiation to no avail, and decided against a bone marrow transplant (which, in this hypothetical situation, which reflects the vast majority of real cases, would more likely kill her than enable a cure) she would be honored and remembered as noble, virtuous and brave.
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We reached out to Nokia and it exchanged one of our phones, but to no avail.
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