ineffectually

1. ADJ-GRADED 不起作用的;徒劳无益的
   If someone or something is ineffectual, they fail to do what they are expected to do or are trying to do.
   1. The mayor had become ineffectual in the struggle to clamp down on drugs.
      市长打击毒品的努力未见成效。
   2. ...the well-meaning but ineffectual jobs programs of the past.
      过去的一些出发点很好但却无成效的就业计划

1. Scientists contend that the money disbursed so far has been spent ineffectually and that a more energetic outreach effort is needed.
   科学家们争论说这笔拨款目前为止花费得没有效益，需要有一个更有利力的服务拓展效果。
2. Economic planners fumbled ineffectually with agricultural and industrial programs.
   经济计划制订人徒劳无益地在摸索农业和工业规划。
3. Second, economic slowdown is what many emerging market central banks were trying, ineffectually, to engineer.
   其次，经济放缓是很多新兴市场央行正在努力策划（但结果无效）的事情。
4. Her love was a fire playing ineffectually over a rock of basalt.
   她的爱，如同一团火，徒劳地烧炼着一块玄武岩石。
5. She fell on her knees and ineffectually tried to pick up the broken fragments of the vase.
   她跪在地上徒劳地试图把花瓶的碎片捡起来。
6. But it is neglected that the energy of the system has lost ineffectually and the efficiency of the system becomes low.
   但忽略了由此使系统的能量发生的无形的损耗，效率也有所下降。
7. However, most bridges need detecting and maintaining since most of them have been used for many years. And due to wrong employment, improper caring, ineffectually delayed inspection, and other influences such as overload, accident and environment elements, bridge damages appear frequently.
   然而，许多桥梁已有较长使用年限，由于使用和养护不当，未进行有效及时的检测，而且还会受到超载、交通事故、环境因素等的影响，造成桥梁损伤破坏的事故时有发生。

adv

1. in an ineffectual manner
   1. she tried ineffectually to light the primus, and Thomas came to help her