8. As the river dried up, our water supply petered out.
由于河流枯竭，我们的供水逐渐断绝。
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9. After a long desert journey the oxen became much petered.
在沙漠中走了长路，牛都累得不行了。
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10. After a few futile attempts, his enthusiasm petered out.
经过几次徒劳无功之后，他的热情就消退了。
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11. Finally, after a couple of hours, the gunfire petered out.
最后，过了两个小时，枪声才渐渐停止了。
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12. The mine once had a rich vein of silver, but it petered out.
这矿床原有很丰富的银矿，但已所剩无几了。
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13. Our trail petered out, as seems inevitable in these situations.
脚下的足迹渐渐消失，在这种情况下无可避免。
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14. But within a few days the conference had petered out in disarray.
但是数天来，会议逐渐在混乱中走向尾声。
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15. So, she is right, for the most part, seems that the flu is all petered out.
所以，她是正确的，在大多数情况下，似乎是所有禽流感逐渐消失。
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16. But sustaining the momentum will be difficult-for all the reasons why Project Tiger petered out into failure.
但是要延续这一势头并不容易，其原因和当初“老虎计划”何以无疾而终并无二致。
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17. While last year's rally in metal seems to have petered out, prospects for platinum, along with palladium, remain bright.
在去年大部分金属的价格攀升后又纷纷下跌的同时，铂金和钯的价格则一直蒸蒸日上。
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18. The rest petered out, usually because one of the recipients was either too busy to forward the message or thought it was junk mail.
其余的消失了，通常因为一个受者太忙了，也没有提出了信息或者以为是垃圾邮件。
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19. It is bad enough when trade talks break up in acrimony; how much worse that the Geneva gathering petered out amid complacency and apathy.
贸易谈判在激烈言词中破裂就足够糟糕了，日内瓦会谈在心安理得和冷漠中结束又会更差到哪里去呢？
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20. But Mr Brown was never that keen on mixing markets with health care. Since he became prime minister, the bolder measures have petered out.
但是布朗从来不热衷于将市场与卫生保健混合，自从他出任首相后，较大胆的政策逐渐减少。
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21. That discrepancy was eventually explained by Einstein as a relativistic effect of the sun's gravity, and the search for Vulcan petered out.
这种差别最终被爱因斯坦以太阳引力相对效应解释清楚了，因此对“火神星”的搜索也逐渐淡失。
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22. Only when the long ban on dissection petered out in the Renaissance did the ventricles prove to be so much empty space — poke the brain around a little, and they collapse and disappear.
23. The protest might have petered out had not snipers in plain clothes, assumed to be security men loyal to Mr Saleh, fired into crowds in the capital on March 18th, killing some 50 people.
24. The protest might have petered out had not snipers in plain clothes, assumed to be security men loyal to Mr Saleh, fired into crowds in the capital on March 18th, killing some 50 people.
