All attempts by Shi over the last few years to launch a mainstream career in dancing, singing or acting have fallen flat.

过去几年中，史恒侠试图在唱歌、跳舞或演戏这些主流演艺事业上大展拳脚，但最终希望都落空。

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Have your apologies often fallen flat? Do your spouse's apologies connect and motivate you to forgive? Or are you married to someone who seldom apologizes?

你的道歉总会落空吗？你配偶的道歉会让你原谅他吗？还是与你结婚的人很少道歉？

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But Mr Strickland is vulnerable too; Ohio's 10.1% unemployment rate is the ninth worst in the country and his promise in 2006 to fix the economy has fallen flat.

不过斯特里克兰也有软肋：2006年他曾承诺整治俄亥俄州的经济，可是现在10.1%的失业率已经高踞全国第九。

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Those breasts are flat and fallen now ] speaking to her of her body]; Live in a heavenly mansion, Not in some foul sty."

你乳房已经平而扁,和她谈她的身体;,快住进天国的大厦吧，别再呆在臭猪圈，“

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