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。

Narrator: So Corbould planted squibs simulating bullet impacts all around the square.

旁白：所以 Corbould 在广场周围安放了模拟子弹撞击的爆管。

For this scene, the crew planted squibs to replicate bullet impacts timed perfectly with the car's movements.

对于这个场景，工作人员安放了爆管来复制与汽车运动完美同步的子弹撞击。

And really, how is a man to go through life without letting off just a few squibs every now and again?

真的，一个人如何在生活中不时不时地放过几个哑炮呢？

'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。