Sisyphean

adj.

1. 不可能完成的；永无休止的
   impossible to complete

1. The power cuts out, the water does not run, and the most basic tasks can quickly turn Sisyphean in the face of a crazy-complex bureaucracy.
   停电、停水，即便最基本的任务，在纷繁复杂的官僚主义面前，也会变成永远无法解决的难题。
2. The Sisyphean task of in-house session maintenance
   内部会话维护的无休止工作
3. After their Sisyphean struggles with the Tories and the conservative socialists in their own party, New Labour in power yielded with all too apparent relief to the charms of the business world.
   他们经过与保守党和工党内部保守的社会主义者之间毫无意义的斗争，新工党的执政团体明显屈服于商业世界。
4. Several weeks of Sisyphean efforts at building a bipartisan consensus on his$ 800bn stimulus plan appear to have won the White House very little support from an increasingly hostile opposition.
   数周来，奥巴马如同西西弗斯一般，为就8000亿美元的经济刺激方案达成两党共识不懈地努力，但似乎并没有为白宫赢得反对方的多少支持，后者的敌意反而越来越重。
5. He was really a Sisyphean poor thing, because his wife squandered his money and went away in the long run.
   他真是像西西弗斯那样一个劳而不获的可怜虫，因为他的妻子乱花他的钱，并且终于离开了他。
6. What they do is a Sisyphean task.
   他们所干的活是徒劳的苦役。