Denigrated by some as a fashionable flash in the pan and job killer and praised by others as a cure-all – the online production of templates is a profitable but controversial phenomenon.

有人轻看它为一闪而逝的光芒和印刷活件的杀手，也有人称赞它是灵丹妙药——线上印刷活件生产是一种有利可图但颇具争议的现象。

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This is no flash in the pan; over the past couple of years, inflation has been consistently lower than expected in Britain and America.

这不是昙花一现。在过去几年里，英国和美国的通货膨胀率始终低于预测水平。

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His first novel was a flash in the pan, and he hasn't written anything decent since.

他的第一部小说如昙花一现，此后他再没写出像样的东西。

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He said Enfield's success at FGCU wasn't a flash in the pan and that his up-tempo style and stingy defense will be fun for both the Trojans players and fans.

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Chrysler's turnaround in the U.S., under the enormously able Dieter Zetsche--who may some day head up all of DaimlerChrysler--is no flash in the pan and is unlike past comebacks that were inevitably followed by company-threatening crashes.

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And this team, I think that if they were a flash in the pan club, if they hadn't been here before so many times, you might say okay this is a game where they might be tight.

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