squib

常见例句

双语例句

• As a fuel for stocks, that's got about as much bang as a wet squib a week after the Fourth of July.
  可是若把这个做为提振股市而弄出的响动的话，就如同独立日过了一周后，点了一个水泡了的爆竹。
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• It was a bit of a damp squib, making no firm recommendations and proposing no new regulation or legislation.
  不过它就像一个受潮了的爆竹，既没有给出坚决的建议，也没有提出新的规章或者法规。
• Indeed, the event would have been a complete damp squib were it not for the accompanying razzmatazz of the rugby world cup, which also got going in New Zealand.
  事实上，如果不是因为正在新西兰举行的橄榄球世界杯这一盛事，此次峰会从头到尾都是一个败笔。

权威例句

• Mr Bush's signature domestic reform, Social Security, is turning into a damp squib.
  ECONOMIST: George Bush and his main adviser are in a pickle
• Whatever his exact intentions, Mr Arroyo and his squib are not going to reignite the Habsburg-Valois wars.
  ECONOMIST: If in doubt, bash the French
• It is not surprising, come to think about it, that the birthday bash was rather a damp squib.
  ECONOMIST: Ever closer union, 40 years on The
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