wild goose chase

Harry wondered if Potts had deliberately sent him on a wild goose chase.

哈里疑心波茨故意让他白费力气地瞎找一通。

It was a wild goose chase.

这是白费力气.

You're led on a wild goose chase if you look for an apartment in the papers.

如果你指望通过报纸找到公寓,那是白费劲.

It looks like they've sent us on a wild goose chase.

看来他们是给了我们一个劳而无功的差事。

I hope this whole thing is not a wild goose chase.

我希望这整件事不致白忙一场.

And I'm not going on another wild goose chase with you just so you can clear your guilty conscience.

我可不想为了你能消除罪恶感就跟你白跑一趟

It feels like a wild-goose chase, doesn't it?

徒劳地在搜索，对不对？

Peter: No. It was a wild goose chase.

彼得: 没有.根本就是白忙一场.

As Nathan was led on a wild goose chase, we all waited quietly in the lounge, with the lights dimmed low and the cake's candles lit.

当内森在外面跑的时候，我们大家都在休息厅里静静地等，把灯光变暗，将蛋糕蜡烛点燃。

We wasted all day a wild-goose chase.

我们徒劳无功的浪费了一整天.

I may want to contact clinician to get little more clinical information before I have a wild-goose chase.

在我作出“捉野雁”式的诊断之前，我会与临床医生联系以获得更多临床信息。

In Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio likens the rapid exchange of jokes between Romeo and himself to the cross-country horse race of Shakespeare's time, known as the wild goose chase, in which any number of riders tried to keep up with and accurately follow the lead rider's course:

徒劳无果在《罗密欧与朱丽叶》中，马库修将他和罗密欧之间机智的笑话比拼比做莎士比亚时期的跨境赛马，即“追野鹅”，比赛中所有骑手都要尽力追上并精准跟随在骑手领袖的阵型中：

It looks like this is nothing but a wild goose chase.

追野鹅？我们找路还来不及呢，哪还有时间去追野鹅？

He's asking us to fund a wild-goose chase.

他是让我们的钱打水漂。

The reporter was sent on a wild goose chase, for the monster he was to investigate had never really existed.

记者被派了去作徒劳无益的调查，因为他要查寻的怪物根本不存在。

I think that search is a wild goose chase and that the best we can do is to identify empirical regularities that apply to particular contexts.

我认为，搜寻这一结构的努力是白费力气；我们能够尽力而为的，是找出适用于特定环境的经验性规律。