He replaced a dud valve.

他换掉了一个无用的电子管。

The mine was a dud.

这颗雷是颗哑雷。

The pivotal circular is a dud.

至关重要的炮弹总是哑弹。

One of these terrors is a dud.

必有一种情况是假的。

The crucial round is a dud.

至关重要的炮弹总是哑弹。

The new movie is a dud.

新电影很无聊。

The whole plan turned out to be a dud.

整个计划到头来完全失败了。

This battery is a dud.

这电池是废的。

The original metaphor practice was a dud.

最初的比喻(metaphor)实践失败了。

During yesterday's sham battle, party a fired a dud.

昨天的军事演习，甲方放了一个哑炮。

Always try everything even if it turns out to be a dud.

任何东西都试一试，即使最终一无所用。

This tape recorder is a dud. It won't play my cassette.

这架录音机坏了，不能放我的录音带。

How can we be expected to carry out our jobs with the dud equipment you gave us?

你怎么能指望我们用这些你给的烂设备来完成工作呢？

But Jobs likely knew he had a dud on his hands; consumers, for their part, hated it.

乔布斯心里很清楚，他手里拿的是个哑弹，一个失败的产品，消费者肯定会憎恨这个东西。

That allowed the Banks to release some of the reserves set aside to cover dud loans.

这使得银行可以释放一些储备金来冲抵不良贷款。

People predicted that by week's end Obama would either be a major star or a major dud.

有人预测，本周末奥巴马要么是个明星要么是个哑弹。

Two years ago the first Android phone hit the market and, frankly, it was a bit of a dud.

坦白地讲，当两年前第一款Android手机上市时，它还是一个不太中用的东西。

However, some dud performance has put the focus on price, at least among Chinese bloggers.

然而，一些令人失望的表现将人们的注意力引向了价格，至少中国的博客作者是这样。

Tonight was a bit of a dud in terms of the anticipation and the excitement about this game.

今晚我们在这场比赛中打得不够兴奋，比预期的表现差了一点。

The country's big Banks have raised more capital and written off more dud assets than most others.

比起其他国家的银行，该国的大银行已筹集了更多资本并注销了更多不良资产。

The results will be ugly for some, given how slow they have been to build reserves and acknowledge dud loans.

结果对有些公司是糟糕的，如果他们建立储备和确认坏帐过慢的话。

With Chrysler's market share in a death spiral, Fiat will finally grasp that this dud is exactly that - a dud.

眼见克莱斯勒的市场份额呈现死亡式螺旋下降，菲亚特会最终认识到这个不中用的公司还真就是不中用了。

Some ministries simply wanted to be rid of dud firms, suggests Sean Turnell of Macquarie University in Australia.

澳大利亚麦考瑞大学经济学家肖恩·特纳尔建议一些部门只需要去除毫无业绩的公司。

Taxpayers end up footing the bill for dud loans and the economy underperforms as the flow of finance is misdirected.

纳税人最终则要为那些不良贷款买单。而错误导向的资金流动也使得经济的表现差强人意。

A film that is rumoured to be a dud tends, by means of "bad buzz" leaking to newspapers and the Internet, to become a dud.

如果有谣传一部电影将会成为烂片(直译哑弹，我们通常说一部电影是烂片)，并通过“烂片口碑”的方式透露给报纸和互联网，那么这部电影就真的成了烂片。

But although dud consumer loans have attracted much attention, individuals are not the only ones failing to pay on time.

虽然无力偿还的消费信贷已经备受关注了，但是，消费者并非唯一无法按时还贷的人群。

Though scientists were overjoyed with the plethora of data beamed back to Earth, the mission was a public relations dud.

虽然科学家非常高兴能够收到传回地球的一大堆数据，但这项任务无助于公共关系。

The lemons paper was not even an accurate description of the used-car market: clearly not every used car sold is a dud.

柠檬论文甚至不是一篇关于二手车市场的精准描述：很明显，不是每一辆在售二手车都是有瑕疵的车。

It's widely (and correctly) assumed that he has good connections everywhere he visits, so he's unlikely to wind up at a dud.

广泛的同时也是比较准确的假设认为他和每一个出访地都有很好的联系，所以他不大可能只找一家比较差的餐厅就餐。