Sisyphean
What they do is a Sisyphean task.
他们所干的活是徒劳的苦役。
Schulz made it funny with characters who faced a Sisyphean suburban world with resilience and curiosity.
他的生活对人们是一种警示，自我意识和含而不露的讽刺并不是缺乏感情的代名词。
It is often a Sisyphean endeavor to get the two cultures to work together in a constructive manner.
推动两种文化以一种建设性的方式共同工作的努力常常徒劳无益。
Does China illustrate the promise of clean energy or the Sisyphean task it faces?Put another way, will the U.
国展示的是清洁能源的前景，还是它所面临的永远没有尽头的艰巨任务？
When these are realized, you can only enjoy a few moments of satisfaction and then immediately define new goals and start again the Sisyphean journey.
当这些真的实现了，你却只会有瞬时的满足，然后踏上不停寻找下一个目标，实现目标的无尽旅途。
As for South Korea, President Roh Moo-hyun has until now seen no evil; yet even his foreign minister now admits that dealing with a nuclear North Korea is a Sisyphean task.
对韩国来说，卢武铉总统目前还表示乐观，但他的外交部长也承认与核武化的朝鲜交往是真正的“苦役”。
He is a dented little workhorse who, having outlasted his planned obsolescence, spends his days in the Sisyphean, mechanical labor of gathering and compacting garbage.
他是一个凹痕累累的苦力小机器人，已经过了计划的报废期，整天做着徒劳、机械的作业：收集、压缩垃圾。
In managing your routine you do not strive for results and the Sisyphean element is apparent: a minute after you did the cleaning the place is messed again and you need to clean all over again.
日常事务的管理不需要你去力争达到结果，但是似乎永远也做不完：当你打扫干净的下一分钟又变得脏乱不堪，你不得不又重新打扫。
Their patients' lack of education and the high cost of medicine make health care a Sisyphean task(Frank Gibney, Jr.)
由于‘他们的父母’缺乏教育以及高额的药费开支，使健康问题成为艰苦而无止境的任务(小弗兰克 吉布尼)
"Their patients' lack of education and the high cost of medicine make health care a Sisyphean task" (Frank Gibney, Jr.)
“由于‘他们的父母’缺乏教育以及高额的药费开支，使健康问题成为艰苦而无止境的任务”(小弗兰克·吉布尼)
the Sisyphean grit with which candidates and activists gear up for elections they cannot win.
候选人和活动家以西西弗斯式无尽的毅力来为无法获胜的选举而做准备。
10.As for South Korea, President Roh Moo-hyun has until now seen no evil;yet even his foreign minister now admits that dealing with a nuclear North Korea is a Sisyphean task.
对韩国来说，卢武铉总统目前还表示乐观，但他的外交部长也承认与核武化的朝鲜交往是真正的“苦役”。
Sisyphean task
labour of sisyphus
stone of Sisyphean stone
labor of sisyphus
Sisyphean
adj. 永远做不完的, 徒劳的