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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。

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