The grandiose scheme for a journey across the desert came to nothing.

不切实际的穿越沙漠计划已成泡影。

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The plans concerning the extension northwards however came to nothing.

尽管计划考虑了向北的传播，但最终还是没有实施。

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That search came to nothing, so now scientists are applying statistics to the problem.

搜索一无所获，所以现在科学家们正应用这一问题的统计资料。

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Many were farmers who came to America because they could get land for nothing.

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Following a transformation the study of which is not the concern of the social sciences but rather of biology and psychology, a crossing over came about from a stage where nothing had a meaning to another where everything possessed it.

这门学科并不属社会科学的范畴,而是属于生物学，心理学，此种转变是一种跨越，从一个什么都没有意义的时代到,一个每样东西都能表达的时代的。

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I tried to find it on Google really quick and nothing came up, but I think there is this idea of how you organize a tapestry in that fashion.

我试图在谷歌上查找但是没有结果,但是我想有这么个想法,就是怎么用那种方式编织挂毯

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But, back in Canada, an attempt at collaborative filmmaking with some friends came to nothing.

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Thus, my expectation that my brother would become a talented musician came to nothing.

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And merger talks last year between Clearnet and the London Clearing House came to nothing.

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