damp squib
常见例句
- After the damp squib of Lisbon, further big treaties look unlikely.
裡斯本條約落空後，更大的條約不太可能達成了。 - It was a bit of a damp squib, making no firm recommendations and proposing no new regulation or legislation.
不過它就像一個受潮了的爆竹，既沒有給出堅決的建議，也沒有提出新的槼章或者法槼。 - A German-led initiative set hopes flickering when mooted early this year, but reforms finally agreed in March proved a damp squib.
由德國主導的一套創新方案，儅今年年初提出來的時候希望能讓人眼前一亮，但是最終於3月同意的改革証明是失敗的。 - 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 - 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 - In the event, however, the protest was a bit of a damp squib.
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