Übersetzung für 'vain hope' von Englisch nach Deutsch

vain hope

vergebene Hoffnung {f}

vergebliche Hoffnung {f}

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to hope in vain

vergebens hoffen

vergeblich hoffen

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vain {adj}

nutzlos

aufgeblasen [ugs.]

eingebildet

eitel [pej.: selbstgefällig] [auch: geh. veraltend: nichtig, vergeblich]

vergeblich

vain attempt

vergeblicher Versuch {m}

vain {adj} [conceited]

affig [ugs.] [pej.] [eitel, eingebildet]

vain wish

vergeblicher Wunsch {m}

in vain {adv}

vergebens

vergeblich

sinnlos [vergeblich]

umsonst [vergeblich]

vain {adj} [pointless]

aussichtslos

vain difference

unwesentlicher Unterschied {m}

most vain {adj}

eitelste

more vain {adj}

eitler

vain affair

triviale Angelegenheit {f}

vain project

törichtes Projekt {n}

aussichtsloses Projekt {n}

vain {adj} [fruitless, useless]

fruchtlos [vergeblich, nutzlos]

• The family moved to Wales with a vain hope of improving his mother's health.
• This organisation had been set up in the vain hope of challenging the cartel's dominance.
• During the Peasants' War of 1525 the castle was briefly occupied by the revolting subservient farmers, who burnt all the documents in the vain hope of destroying all proof of their debts and tithes.
• Reinforcements were eventually sent from Aden in a vain hope to stop the Italian invasion.
• Porter waylaid his lordship's carriage, in a vain hope of prevailing by a further direct entreaty, but Londonderry bade the coachman "drive on."

• Such was his fame that several Italian Renaissance painters repeated his subjects, in a vain hope of giving some notion of the composition of them.
• Often local inhabitants plundered the place in the vain hope of finding gold or other treasures, as soon as the archaeologists and accompanying government officials left the island.
• After getting over the River of Death on the ferry boat of Vain Hope without overcoming the hazards of wading across it, Ignorance appears before the gates of Celestial City without a passport, which he would have acquired had he gone into the King's Highway through the Wicket Gate.
• In 1950 Aminu Kano, who had been instrumental in founding the NPC, broke away to form the Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU), in protest against the NPC's limited objectives and what he regarded as a vain hope that traditional rulers would accept modernization.
• A vain hope that wider rims would be less damaging briefly led to carts with sixteen inch wheels.

• In his autobiography, Cushing implies that he attempted suicide on the night of his wife's death by running up and down stairs in the vain hope that it would induce a heart attack.
• With KMT activists being arrested abroad and Germany losing the war, Sun declared war against the Central Powers in the vain hope of garnering recognition and a seat at the Paris Peace Conference but the seat went to the Beiyang government instead.
• First known as Ship Harbor, Anacortes was established with a name and a post office in 1879 in the vain hope that it would be selected as the western terminus of the transcontinental railroad.
• In the short story "Reginald" (1901) by Saki, the narrator leaves Reginald "near a seductive dish of marrons glacés" at a garden-party in the vain hope that these delicacies will distract him from wreaking social havoc.
• Wilson was widely suspected of having plotted for Murray's removal in the vain hope of replacing him, but the job went to Robertson.

• He lived in London for most of his life but was sent to Torquay by his chess friends in 1874 in the vain hope of recuperation.
• The surviving Irish volunteers were repatriated to Ireland after September 1938, when the Republican government disbanded the International Brigades in the vain hope of securing military aid from other democracies and of getting the fascist troops from Italy and Germany to withdraw.
• However, Walsh has clung to the vain hope that his ex-wife will reunite with him.
• Marie-Thérèse lived in the vain hope that Picasso would one day marry her, and hanged herself four years after Picasso's death.