So it proved. I spent the whole of yesterday evening in making inquiries entirely without avail.

事实证明确是如此。昨天我整整跑了一个晚上打听他的下落，可是毫无结果。

Warnings from President Wilson were without avail.

威尔逊总统的警告无济于事。

They are but what I have tried upon myself, without avail.

它们不过是我在自己身上试过的， 但没有用。

The patient mother went back to it again and again to encourage it, but long without avail.

耐心的妈妈一次又一次地回到它身边鼓励它， 但一直都无济于事。