Don't waste your breath trying to persuade them, they'll never listen.
别白费口舌规劝他们,他们不会听你的话。
Don't you think we should add a sentence here like this?
难道你不觉得我们应该在这儿加上一句话?
When lights fuse, furniture gets rickety, pipes get clogged, or vacuum cleaners fail to operate, some woman assume that their husbands will somehow put things right.