The words rang in the empty set like the ineffectualities of a ghost.

这些话在空荡荡的场景中响起， 就像幽灵般的无效。

The artificial ways of inducing sleep are legion, and are only alike in their ineffectuality.

人工催眠的方法多不胜举，惟一的相同之处就是都不管用。

He was burning visibly--a grayish flush had spread over his face, dissolving all his expressions into a vast ineffectuality.

他明显在燃烧——浅灰色的红晕在他的脸上蔓延开来， 把他所有的表情都溶解成一片巨大的无效。