un·re·ward·ed /ˌʌnrɪˈwɔːdɪd◂ $ -ˈwɔːr-/ adjectiveadj not achieving what you want to achieve 未果的，未获成功的 His efforts have not gone unrewarded. 他的努力没有白费。
unrewarded• The frustration of unrewarded effort reinforces other creeping changes.• Many nurses in small community hospitals have been working as ENPs, unrecognised and unrewarded, for many years.• Meanwhile the Emperor ordered that Aurangzeb should remain - unrewarded - on gruelling campaign against the empire's enemies in the Deccan.