squib

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As a fuel for stocks, that's got about as much bang as a wet squib a week after the Fourth of July.
可是若把這個做為提振股市而弄出的響動的話，就如同獨立日過了一周后，點了一個水泡了的爆竹。
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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，也沒有提出新的規(guī)章或者法規(guī)。
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.
事實上，如果不是因為正在新西蘭舉行的橄欖球世界杯這一盛事，此次峰會從頭到尾都是一個敗筆。

Mr Bush's signature domestic reform, Social Security, is turning into a damp squib.
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Whatever his exact intentions, Mr Arroyo and his squib are not going to reignite the Habsburg-Valois wars.
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It is not surprising, come to think about it, that the birthday bash was rather a damp squib.
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a small firework consisting of a tube filled with powder that makes a hissing noise when it is lit

a firework, usually having a tube filled with gunpowder, that burns with a hissing noise and culminates in a small explosion
to sound, move, or explode like a squib