go down the drain

'Don't let our hard work in the past week go down the drain,' Mr. Lin told protesters.

林飞帆告诉抗议者，不要让我们过去一周的努力付诸流水。

Our plans to go swimming went down the drain when it rained.

天一下雨,我们去游泳的计划就全落空了.

Because of rich coking coal and cheap labour force in China, along with coke industry in developed nations go down the drain, a lot of coke enterprises rapid have grew up in China, also have become livingness and potential enterprises.

中国的炼焦煤源丰富，劳动力价值低廉，随着西方世界焦化工业每况愈下，一批中国焦炭生产企业正在迅速崛起，成为中国经济中具有活力和发展潜力的企业。

Butyou're your heart at ease. I'll not let the money go down the drain.

我明白了，放心吧，我不会让那些钱白白流走。

Without media exposure, hundreds of thousands of pounds would go down the drain, I mean nobody even notices the brand or the company behind the event.

没有媒体的曝光，大笔金钱将付之东流。我的意思是甚至没有人注意到活动背后的品牌或者公司。

Stick it out, or all our efforts will go down the drain.

坚持到底，不然我们所有的努力将会付诸东流。

A single mistake and all that time and money would go down the drain.

只要发生一个错误，全部的时间和金钱就将尽付东流。

We don't want all their hard work to go down the drain.

我们不想他们所有的辛勤工作都付之东流。

He's not going to let it go down the drain now.

现在他也不会让它白白丧失掉.

Waste cooking oil doesn't have to go down the drain;

废弃食用油的归宿不一定是下水道；

The summit was sure to go down the drain if we played our "hole card" of blockade against the area.

如果我们打出封锁那地区这张得分牌，最高级会谈肯定会告吹。

Waste cooking oil doesn't have to go down the drain; it can be used to make candles, according to the creators of the Filt waste oil candle.

日本致力于平衡生态的“菜花”工程，废弃食用油的归宿不一定是下水道；Filt品牌的创始人告诉我们，它们还可以用来制作蜡烛。

Later, when you unplug the stopper, the used water will go rushing out down the drain.

然后，当你拔掉塞子之后，用过的水就会漏进下水道里。

I can't believe it, four years go down the drain.

我不能相信, 四年的时间就这样流逝.

An effective product strategy can motivate people to develop successful products, on the contrary, even the best of R& D efforts will be inefficient due to the product strategy and go down the drain.

一个有效的产品战略能够激励人们研发出成功的产品，相反，即使是再好的研发努力也会因低效的产品战略而付诸东流。