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Diversification has been a washout: stockmarkets have been almost perfectly correlated with each other.
分散投资也失败了：股市之间步调几乎完全一致。
So, the best VC formula is to back the third venture, when the first was good and the second was a washout.
所以，风险投资商的最佳准则是，当第一次创业大获成功，第二次全军覆没时，力挺第三次创业。
The hero was a washout—loveless, nearly friendless and all but jobless (“It's time you knew the cold soft facts of me. I did not pan out.
作品中的主人公是一位彻头彻尾的失败者，没有爱情、几无朋友、几无工作（“该是你知道我那凄冷无助、胸无大志的人生真相的时候了。

I appreciate particularly the idea of human rights, because it is meant to get a round culture, and particularly a round religion, to find those common denominators, hopefully not the lowest denominator that's just ethical washout. It doesn't mean anything.
我尤其赞赏人权的观点，因为它是要构建一个全面的文化，尤其是一个全面完整的宗教，以此来寻求人类共通的地方，希望别是最低层次的共通点,否则只会是道德的失败，没有任何意义。
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That ended with a recession and one last washout, and that would be healthy here.
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The mean relative FEV1 across the combination dose groups returned toward baseline during the post-treatment 28-day washout period.
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(FAILURE) a complete failure
(CANCELLED EVENT) an event or sports competition that is prevented from happening or stopped early because of heavy rain