He may be a very talented designer, but as a manager he's a dead loss.

他可能是一个很有天赋的设计师，但作为经理他却很无能。

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I regret buying that car. It is a dead loss and does not worth the money at all.

我后悔买了那辆车。它糟透了，根本不值那个钱。

youdao

At high latitudes like ours, most small-scale ambient power production is a dead loss.

在像我们这样的高海拔地区，大部分的小规模电力生产是死路一条。

youdao

Thus their travel time is a dead loss: and reducing that travel time becomes a very valuable and major benefit.

FORBES: Why We Shouldn't be Building Large Infrastructure Projects

The liquidity premium is a dead weight loss to the economy in that it is a discouragement to investment.

FORBES: What Is the Liquidity Premium? What Does It Mean?

Opposition spokesman Lord Eatwell said tax avoidance by businesses "undermines any perception of fairness in the tax system and imposes a dead-weight loss on the economy, by spawning a socially-useless tax avoidance industry".

BBC: Tax avoidance debate