柯林斯詞典avail /??ve?l/ (availing,availed,avails) 1. PHRASE If you do something to no avail or to little avail, what you do fails to achieve what you want. 徒勞[書面] His efforts were to no avail. 他的努力是徒勞的。2. V-T If you avail yourself of an offer or an opportunity, you accept the offer or make use of the opportunity. 利用[正式] Guests should feel at liberty to avail themselves of your facilities. 客人們應(yīng)可以隨意使用你們的設(shè)施。 返回 avail劍橋詞典use, purpose , advantage , or profit 效用；幫助；利益 We tried to persuade her not to resign , but to no avail (= did not succeed ). 我們力勸她不要辭職，可是沒(méi)有用。 My attempts to improve the situation were of little/no avail. 我竭力扭轉(zhuǎn)局面，但是收效甚微／徒勞無(wú)功。 返回 avail