[だめ(P);ダメ, dame (P); dame] (adj-na, n) (1) (uk) no good; not serving its purpose; useless; broken; (2) (uk) hopeless; wasted; in vain; purposeless; (3) (uk) cannot; must not; not allowed; (P) #15,167[Add to Longdo]
[まちぼうける;まちぼける, machiboukeru ; machibokeru] (v1) to wait in vain[Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Vain \Vain\, n.
Vanity; emptiness; -- now used only in the phrase
{in vain}.
[1913 Webster]
{For vain}. See {In vain}. [Obs.] --Shak.
{In vain}, to no purpose; without effect; ineffectually. " In
vain doth valor bleed." --Milton. " In vain they do
worship me." --Matt. xv. 9.
{To take the name of God in vain}, to use the name of God
with levity or profaneness.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
in vain
adv 1: to no avail; "he looked for her in vain"; "the city
fathers tried vainly to find a solution" [syn: {vainly},
{in vain}]
แสดงได้ทั้งความหมายของคำเดี่ยว และคำผสม ได้อย่างถูกต้อง
เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย