I used to pour time and energy into projects that were doomed from the start.

过去我总是将时间和精力投入到一些从一开始就注定要失败的项目上。

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The plans and strategies of the human leaders were doomed to fail because they didn't have love as the base.

那些所谓的大人物的计划和目标是注定要失败的，因为他们的作为不是建立在爱的基础之上。

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If people knew that their nation, group and family were doomed to perish, they would build no lasting buildings.

如果人们知道他们的民族，集团以及家庭注定消亡，他们便不会修建永久性建筑。

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Those who had lost any faith in the future fell into depression and were doomed.

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Garfield's aspirations were doomed to fail by forces of opposition too strong for him to overcome.

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Some of the projects, poorly sited or poorly designed, were doomed to be uneconomic from the start.

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