我的一切费用都打了水漂。
维系这股冲劲的失败将意味着至今花费的资金全部打了水漂。
A failure to maintain the momentum will mean money spent so far will have been for nothing.
不仅是学费和相关支出打了水漂,付出的时间成本也不可估量。
It includes all the money spent on tuition and associated expenses, plus a huge amount of time poorly spent.
无论哪一种方式,都会忽视掉主要症状,让病人的时间和钱都打了水漂。
Both approaches tend to miss the main symptoms - and therefore waste the patient's time and money.
因此,他们会花数千块通过猎头公司找工作,但这些钱通常都是打了水漂。
Hence, they'll spend thousands of dollars on career-marketing firms that promise to find them jobs. After paying the money, these executives often find the firms don't deliver.
鲜少的冷冻用卡车和糟糕的物流意味着每一次收获的庄稼大多是打了水漂,浪费了。
Few refrigerated lorries and poor logistics mean that much of each harvest is wasted.
在那些最好的餐厅里,用餐的人们接到电话,意识到他们的钱都打了水漂之后,脸色煞白。
In the best restaurants, diners blanched after learning by cell phone that their money was gone.
反之,他们持有这样的观点,每一个空位都表示一大笔钱打了水漂,他们会把自己的飞机塞到爆满。
Instead, they cram their planes to bursting, taking the view that every empty seat is a bundle of money flying away.
伦敦德比的最后时刻出现了少有的戏剧性一幕,门柱两次阻止了切尔西的进球使一场主场的胜利打了水漂。
Closing minutes are rarely more dramatic than in this London Derby as the woodwork twice denied Chelsea from turning a game that had been drifting away into a home win.
国人当中相当一部分人心中只认“钱“字,且都是些有权的人,一些几千万甚至上亿的项目很多都打了水漂,这样意义何在?
A large proportion of our people are "money-oriented", among which power is also concentrated. Due to their presence, many projects of huge value end in vain. What's the point in all of these?
国人当中相当一部分人心中只认“钱“字,且都是些有权的人,一些几千万甚至上亿的项目很多都打了水漂,这样意义何在?
A large proportion of our people are "money-oriented", among which power is also concentrated. Due to their presence, many projects of huge value end in vain. What's the point in all of these?
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