wild goose chase
基本解释
- 徒勞的搜索;勞而無功的事
英汉例句
- The boss sent me on a wild goose chase that wasted half the day.
老板給了我一項成功無望的任務,浪費了我大半天的時間。
baike.ef.com.cn - The Afghan strategy review has been too public and taken too long; the Middle East peace hunt has become a wild goose chase.
阿富汗戰略廻顧過於高調竝耗時過長,尋求中東和平的努力變得徒勞無功。 - Why haven't authorities, having spent millions of dollars, including a lot spent on the wild goose chase after Hatfill, been able to even identify the source of the anthrax ?
美國政府已經花費掉數百萬美元了,其中包括在哈特費爾之後的一些荒謬無益的做法,爲什麽到現在還沒有權威的部門來識別炭疽(病)的來源呢? - Orlando is still after Angelica, but with Alcina's help, he's sent off on a wild goose chase.
NPR: Love And Lunacy: Vivaldi's 'Orlando Furioso' - For half an hour, Rousselot walked around in the vicinity, wondering if the woman who lived with Morini had sent him on a wild goose chase, until eventually he began to feel tired and headed for the port.
NEWYORKER: Álvaro Rousselot’s Journey - Richter's diary recounts how Elgar told him that there was no thematic link to the variations, but that since they were finished on April 1st, Elgar had resolved to start a wild goose chase by pretending that there was.
ECONOMIST: Historical mendacity: Japes of the great
雙語例句
權威例句
词组短语
- wild -goose chase 徒勞無功
- a wild -goose chase maze 迷津
- Go On A Wild -goose Chase 心勞日拙
- a wild goose chase 徒勞的搜索;鑽牛角尖;鑽牛角;徒勞的擧動
- The Wild Goose Chase 嬉春無悔
短語
英英字典
- If you are on a wild goose chase, you waste a lot of time searching for something that you have little chance of finding, because you have been given incorrect information.
柯林斯英英字典
专业释义
- 徒勞的搜索;勞而無功的事
- 徒勞無益的追求