The grandiose scheme for a journey across the desert came to nothing.

不切实际的穿越沙漠计划已成泡影。

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By early 2009, travelers will have the opportunity to stay at the grandiose Poseidon Undersea Resort.

到2009年初，旅客们将有机会入住壮观的海神海中度假酒店。

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Sometimes it may mean that yourecognize that something does not live up to the grandiose hype butstill has useful things to offer.

有时，它可能意味着yourecognize的东西不辜负宏伟的炒作butstill已提供有用的东西。

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The property company has been hard hit by the global financial and real estate crises, putting on hold many of the grandiose projects for which Dubai has gained fame.

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"You've got some people involved who have a grandiose plot for some fanatical reason to put a bomb in the center of New York, but they're not very adept at explosives or bomb-making.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

Former CIA counterterrorism chief Robert Grenier says the failed Times Square bombing may indicate that al-Qaida and its allies have abandoned more grandiose plans for the United States and are emphasizing smaller but still deadly operations.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

The grandiose Barack Obama was the personification of that attitude, if not a caricature of it.

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Forget the grandiose paper plans projecting long-run spending reductions from changes to entitlement programs.

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According to founding partner Lyndon Neri, the South Bund provides a much-needed alternative to the grandiose environs of the old Bund.

BBC: The regeneration of Shanghai��s Bund