| 词汇 | fight a losing battle |
| 释义 | fight a losing battlefight a losing battle FAILto try to do something that you probably cannot succeed in doing 打一场无法取胜的仗 I’m fighting a losing battle on this diet. 这样节食我肯定坚持不下去。 Examples from the Corpus fight a losing battle• And yet despite all this the pounds were creeping up on us and we seemed to be fighting a losing battle.• Even with the addition of the Morning Post to the publishing empire in 1924, Die-hard journalism was fighting a losing battle.• For most of these people they were fighting a losing battle.• Under the present conditions of economic recession, regional policies are fighting a losing battle.• Why couldn't she see she was fighting a losing battle?• The 84-year-old Oscar-winner has been fighting a losing battle against failing sight for the past year.• The windscreen wipers sounded asthmatic, fighting a losing battle against the insistent rain.• He tried hard to do this, but he was fighting a losing battle here against the rising tide of papal authority. → fight a losing battle at fight1(2) |
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