avail
nounWord OriginMiddle English: from obsolete vail ‘be of use or value’ (apparently on the pattern of pairs such as amount, mount), from Old French valoir, from Latin valere ‘be strong, be of value’.
Idioms Idioms
of little/no avail
to little/no avail
- (formal)
with little or no success 沒有什麽效果;不成功 The doctors tried everything to keep him alive but to no avail. 醫生千方百計想使他活下來,但無濟於事。 They worked hard to win the project but all to no avail. 他們努力爭取赢得這個項目,但都無濟於事。