The most eagerly awaited stockmarket flotation in years turned out to be a damp squib.

多年来最备受期待的股票发行结果却让人大跌眼镜。

'Yes! ' he shrieked, shooting out of his corner like a squib and sticking his furious small face within an inch of Searle's, 'it has been photographed!

'是的！'他尖叫着，像个哑炮一样从他的角落里射出来，把他那张愤怒的小脸贴在离 Searle 不到一英寸的地方，“它被拍到了！”

There was something so irresistible in the Gadfly's grave absurdities that those who most disapproved of and disliked him laughed as immoderately at all his squibs as did his warmest partisans.

牛虻的严重荒谬中有一种无法抗拒的东西，以至于那些最不赞成和最不喜欢他的人和他最热情的支持者一样，对他所有的哑炮都大笑起来。