But anyone that tried to look further came out empty handed.

可是，任何试图深入了解的人都空手而归。

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On Tuesday, Houston officials took control of supply distributions after they learned of people standing in line for hours only to be turned away empty handed.

星期二，休斯敦官员听说有人排了几个小时的队、但却空手而归之后，接管了物资分发工作。

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We won't finish the season empty handed though as we have already won two international trophies.

尽管如此，我们这个赛季不会两手空空，因为我们已经得到了两座洲际俱乐部赛事冠军。

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U.S.Middle East envoy George Mitchell held six days of talks in the region last week trying to find a formula for resuming peace talks, but came up empty handed.

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He said he feared that unless serious resources were spent over the next two months developing specific projects and numbers to justify the mitigation requests, the continent would leave the Copenhagen summit largely empty handed.

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But none of the so-called November Nine will leave empty-handed.

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But many people got there, had some free goat-cheese puffs, and went home empty handed.

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And yet, those that attempt to find justice seem to be left empty handed.

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After returning empty handed (there are few misadventures as pathetic as obsequiesness rebuffed), Mr. Straw refused to abandon his script.

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