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tried and found wanting idiom tried and discovered to be not effective: 试过但没有效果 These policies, said the speaker, have been tried and found wanting.发言人说,这些政策实行后发现收效不大。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Not good enough be not onidiom beneath cop deficiency deficiency in something intolerable intolerably lamely lameness leave a lot to be desiredidiom sadness second-rate sub-optimum subaverage suboptimal unsatisfactory unsatisfying unsound unworthily unworthy
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