This agreement, if not implemented, is a mere scrap of paper.

这个协定如不执行只不过是一纸空文。

《新英汉大辞典》

Many were mere ideas for poems jotted down on whatever scrap of paper lay to hand.

其中有许多只是一些诗的意念，信手写在纸上的。

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Many were mere ideas for poems jotted down on whatever scrap of paper lay to hand.

其中有许多只是一些诗的意念，信手写在纸上的。

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