I used to pour time and energy into projects that were doomed from the start.

过去我总是将时间和精力投入到一些从一开始就注定要失败的项目上。

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If Google is indeed a natural monopoly, as I suspect it is, then Yahoo's efforts were doomed.

如果正如我认为的那样，谷歌确实是个天生的垄断者，那么雅虎的努力就注定会付诸东流。

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She always said we were doomed to be star-crossed lovers destined to wonder what might have been.

她总是说我们有缘无份，总是被命运左右，错过彼此。

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Those who had lost any faith in the future fell into depression and were doomed.

ECONOMIST: Viktor Frankl

Garfield's aspirations were doomed to fail by forces of opposition too strong for him to overcome.

CNN: Why inaugural speeches mostly fail

Some of the projects, poorly sited or poorly designed, were doomed to be uneconomic from the start.

ECONOMIST: Small projects often give better returns