miss fire

汉语翻译

例句：

1. My attempts to interest a sponsor missed fire several times, but I succeeded eventually.
   我几次试图引起一个赞助人的兴趣，都没有达到目的，但最后还是成功了。
2. He repeated the joke but it missed fire the second time.
   他把笑话又说了一遍，可是第二次就没有赢得笑声。