网络泡沫的破灭使大多数这类预测变得不可信，在随后的几年里，随着人口普查局持续报告在线销售疲软的情况，传统零售商对未来的信心增强。

The dot.com bust discredited most predictions of that sort and in the years that followed, conventional retailers' confidence in the future increased as Census continued to report weak online sales.

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失败的消息使我们的自信心迅速破灭了。

News of the defeat quickly burst the bubble of our self-confidence.

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