"Come to nought" nghĩa là gì?

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"Come/bring to nought" = Chỉ dẫn đến số không -> làm thất bại, phá huỷ, làm mất hết, làm tiêu tan.

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"All the fears they had of Māori ruining the industry or taking it over and selling it off to overseas interests and all that sort of thing, that has all come to nought. This country has got to learn to trust Māori."

He said that security personnel (nhân viên an ninh) were working tirelessly to deal with any potential threat to the operations of the party in the Diaspora. Cde Zavare said some remnants (tàn dư, cái còn lại) of the G40 cabal (bè đảng) were in the UK with the sole aim of causing despondency (sự nản lòng) but their efforts would come to nought.

Less than three years ago Trump was threatening North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, whom he belittled as “rocket man”, with “fire and fury”. In those days market volatility (đầy biến động) spiked at the prospect of a proper escalation between nuclear nations. But then Trump accepted a summit (cuộc họp thượng đỉnh) with Kim. Their agreement to work towards “denuclearisation (không vũ khí hạt nhân) on the Korean Peninsula” has largely come to nought, but the two leaders have maintained warm relations.

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