Instead they've become models of bold visions that mostly stayed on the drawing boards - or collapsed from shoddy implementation.

但它们变成了图纸上的大胆想象的典范——或者毁于低劣的执行。

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To reach that goal, China has 17 reactors under construction, and 124 more on the drawing boards, according to the World Nuclear Association (WNA) industry group.

据世界核协会(WNA)工业组织透露，为了要到达那一个目标，中国正在建造17处反应堆，并且计划中124处之多。

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This comes close to a rejection of almost all new coal-fired power plants on the drawing boards, including the 11 plants recently proposed by TXU, a Texas utility.

这一看法和几乎所有正在规划中的新型煤炭电力公司的看法相近，这其中包括得克萨斯公共事业公司最近准备设立的11家电厂。

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Today it has several hundred, with scores of new ones on the drawing boards.

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But an urge to dig ever deeper into your wallet, dear tax-payer, has become a staple on the drawing boards of U.N. plan-o-crats.

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And a succession of needed replacements for obsolescing weapon systems will remain right where they are: on the drawing boards.

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