damp squib

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After the damp squib of Lisbon, further big treaties look unlikely.
里斯本條約落空后，更大的條約不太可能達(dá)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(gè)受潮了的爆竹，既沒有給出堅(jiān)決的建議，也沒有提出新的規(guī)章或者法規(guī)。
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(dǎo)的一套創(chuàng)新方案，當(dāng)今年年初提出來的時(shí)候希望能讓人眼前一亮，但是最終于3月同意的改革證明是失敗的。

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