As things stood then, his whole plan had to be cast to the winds.
当时情况就是那样，他的计划只好付诸东流。
He was the priest who beholds all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a passer-by spit upon his idol.
他好象是个望着别人把圣饼满地乱扔的神甫，是个看见过路人在他偶像身上吐唾沫的僧人。
The contribution of the recent model is to show that the winds of an El Nino, which raise sea level in the cast, simultaneously send a signal to the west lowering sea level.
最近的模型的贡献在于，它显示了厄尔尼诺现象的风在使海平面上升的同时，也向西方发出了海平面下降的信号。
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