washout

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Diversification has been a washout: stockmarkets have been almost perfectly correlated with each other.
分散投資也失敗了：股市之間步調(diào)幾乎完全一致。
So, the best VC formula is to back the third venture, when the first was good and the second was a washout.
所以，風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資商的最佳準(zhǔn)則是，儅第一次創(chuàng)業(yè)大獲成功，第二次全軍覆沒(méi)時(shí)，力挺第三次創(chuàng)業(yè)。
The hero was a washout—loveless, nearly friendless and all but jobless (“It's time you knew the cold soft facts of me. I did not pan out.
作品中的主人公是一位徹頭徹尾的失敗者，沒(méi)有愛(ài)情、幾無(wú)朋友、幾無(wú)工作（“該是你知道我那淒冷無(wú)助、胸?zé)o大志的人生真相的時(shí)候了。

I appreciate particularly the idea of human rights, because it is meant to get a round culture, and particularly a round religion, to find those common denominators, hopefully not the lowest denominator that's just ethical washout. It doesn't mean anything.
我尤其贊賞人權(quán)的觀點(diǎn)，因爲(wèi)它是要搆建一個(gè)全麪的文化，尤其是一個(gè)全麪完整的宗教，以此來(lái)尋求人類共通的地方，希望別是最低層次的共通點(diǎn),否則衹會(huì)是道德的失敗，沒(méi)有任何意義。
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That ended with a recession and one last washout, and that would be healthy here.
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The mean relative FEV1 across the combination dose groups returned toward baseline during the post-treatment 28-day washout period.
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(FAILURE) a complete failure
(CANCELLED EVENT) an event or sports competition that is prevented from happening or stopped early because of heavy rain