Two of the fireworks in the box were duds.
盒子里的烟火有两个是点不着的废品。
a dud battery
废电池
a dud cheque(= written by sb who has not enough money in their bank account)
空头支票
1.〈俚〉失败,失望;无用的人,没有进取心的人
2.【军】〈俚〉(没有爆发的)哑弹,瞎弹
3.〈俚〉衣服;个人的衣服什物;〈罕〉破衣烂裳
4.〈俚〉假货,伪品;不中用的东西
1.〈俚〉失败,失望;无用的人,没有进取心的人
2.【军】〈俚〉(没有爆发的)哑弹,瞎弹
3.〈俚〉衣服;个人的衣服什物;〈罕〉破衣烂裳
4.〈俚〉假货,伪品;不中用的东西
1.假的,不中用的
1.someone or something that is very disappointing
2.a bomb or other explosive object that fails to explode
1.In one of the dungeon blocks of incorrect crypts, there is no such end portal, but your character will remark that you've found a dud.
可是在其中一个错误地下室的地牢中，没有这样一个传送站，但角色会提示说“坑爹啊找到了具废物”。
2.We lit the firecracker and waited for it to go off, but it was a dud. Nothing happened when the fire finished burning the fuse.
我们点燃了炮竹然后等它爆炸，但是失败了。引信燃尽的时候一点动静没有。
3.Hey Tobias, your character says that the cavern "is a dud" to let you know that the crown is not in that dungeon.
你角色说那山洞深处是个“坑爹的废物”，是为了让你知道骷髅王的皇冠不在那个地牢里。
4.Dud Bolt was one of the few Podracer pilots realized as a puppet rather than an all computer-generated creation.
达德·博尔特是少数几个依靠木偶而非全计算机制作的飞梭大赛赛车手之一。
5.Two years ago the first Android phone hit the market and, frankly, it was a bit of a dud.
坦白地讲，当两年前第一款Android手机上市时，它还是一个不太中用的东西。
6.You and I may think it had something to do with dud mortgages being repackaged as inexplicably exotic financial instruments. Wrong.
你我或许会认为，毫无价值的抵押贷款，被重新打包为难以理解的新奇金融工具，应该难以逃脱牵连。错！
7.I am trying to get the slide projector to work. It looks like the light bulb is a dud!
那就别摆弄幻灯了。我光听就行了。
8.And ironically, it's now your money that will be used to repay those dud mortgages because we on Wall Street are running out of money.
具有讽刺意味的是，现在得用你们的钱来偿还那些问题抵押贷款了，因为我们华尔街没钱了。
9.But although dud consumer loans have attracted much attention, inpiduals are not the only ones failing to pay on time.
虽然无力偿还的消费信贷已经备受关注了，但是，消费者并非唯一无法按时还贷的人群。
10.When you can't stand to stay out with a dud any longer, just say good-bye.
如果你受不了跟一个混球见面，把他甩了就是。