If you work hard for a year doing the wrong thing, at the end you're going to realise that your efforts hadn't come to much.

如果你一年都在为一件错事而努力，最终你会意识到你的努力什么都没换来。

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Recent efforts to branch out into new areas, such as a re-entry into mobile telecoms using network capacity leased from other firms, have not come to much.

最近BT正努力拓展到新的领域，如通过租用其他公司的网络容量重新打入移动通信领域，可惜收效甚微。

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How much may it come to?

一共大概多少钱？

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So they quickly passed a bill that made it much more difficult for Chinese citizens to come to live in the United States.

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And in order to stand out, you really need to come up with a much better technology, a much better product, and much better user experiences.

想要脱颖而出，就需要研发出更好的技术，更好的产品，更好的用户体验。

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and it's very much focused on what's going to come later rather than...

而且专注的是以后会发生什么而不是……

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However, the BBC's Bethany Bell in Cairo says Youssef has been the subject of a number of complaints in the past, none of which have come to much, and the decision to open an investigation does not mean necessarily that he will be prosecuted.

BBC: Popular Egypt satirist accused of mocking president

This painful but moving scene provides a clue as to why Mr Browner felt compelled to write this book and why the art of hospitality has come to matter so much to him.

ECONOMIST: Hospitality

The intention of expanding refrigeration (the roots of Aggreko's business were in refrigerating food for Christian Salvesen) has come to nothing much.

BBC: Scottish independence: Fjords flowing with funds