vain hope

It may be a vain hope.

这个愿望恐怕要落空.

In fact the benefits of reading the classic self-evident, but in the heavy task of teaching, a competitive high school entrance examination, want to read a large number of students in extra-curricular time classic can only be a vain hope.

而实际上经典阅读的好处不言而喻，然而在教学任务繁重、高考竞争激烈的高中，想让学生在课外时间大量阅读经典只能是一个奢望。

A horse is a vain hope for deliverance ; despite all its great strength it cannot save.

靠25马得救是 枉然 的,26马也不能因力大救人.

He married his fourth wife, Susan, in the vain hope that she would improve his health.

他娶了第四个老婆苏珊，徒然希望她能使他健康状况好转。

I knocked loudly in the vain hope that someone might answer.

我敲门敲得很响，希望有人应声，却是徒然。

Little testaments of faith, screamed out in the dark night... in the cold, dark night when the wind's blowing alpine... in the vain hope that someone will read and hear and understand.

信仰被一点点击垮在黑暗中歇斯底里地叫喊在寒冷黑暗的深夜之中在狂风呼啸的深夜之中只求有人能够读懂听懂你的所知所感到头来却发现一切都是徒劳的

He asked her again in the vain hope that he could persuade her to come.

他又问了她一次，徒然指望着能说服她来。