bootless
bootlessadjective- (archaic)(of a task of undertaking) ineffectual; useless
(古)无用的,无益的
remonstrating with him seems ever to have been a bootless task.
向他抗议看来一向是没有用的。
语源- Old English bōtlēas 'not able to be compensated for by payment' (see boot, -less)
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