







futile effort; fruitless labor
It was a vain attempt to shift the responsibility for the murder to somebody else.
He hunted vainly through his pockets for a piece of paper.

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Open the tool →徒劳 (tú láo) means “futile effort; fruitless labor”.
徒劳 is pronounced tú láo in Mandarin Chinese.
“futile effort; fruitless labor” is 徒劳 (tú láo) in Chinese.
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