Poor regions lacking infrastructure, for instance, fail to attract investment.

The next step is to attract investment from overseas.

下一步则是吸引海外投资。

The government seeks reform to attract investment and boost growth.

日本政府推动改革是为了吸引投资并推动增长。

How Can China's Northern Cities Attract Investment from Europe

中国北方城市如何吸引欧洲投资&访国际商务咨询专家麦克·贺伯特

Environment Evaluation and Strategy Design for Hubei Province to Attract Investment

湖北省吸引外商直接投资的环境评价和对策设计

The preference differences of the merchants and attract investment participants are the basis of bilateral matching.

招商引资参与主体的偏好差异是双边匹配的基础。

Increase the efforts to attract investment to increase the quality and scale of projects;

要加大招商引资力度，提高进区项目的质量和规模；

On the day of trial, there was a great attendance at the court.

法院审判的那天，许多人出席了。

There was a large attendance at the Fair.

出席这次交易会的人数很多。

Attendance at the conference is open to all who wish to come.

对会议有兴趣者可自由参加。

There was a large [ small] attendance at the ceremony.

参加典礼的人数很多[少]。

He decided to improve himself by attendance at evening classes.

他决定上夜校以提高自己的水平。

State law makes attendance at school compulsory for children of certain ages.

州法律规定，达到一定年龄的小孩都必须上学。

Our attendance at graduation is optional.

毕业典礼可以自愿参加。

We have full attendance at today's meeting.

今天到会的人很齐截。

We figured the attendance at 150 000.

我们估计有15万人参加。

Attendance at my lectures has fallen off considerably.

听我讲课的学生大大减少了。

Several heads of state were in attendance at the funeral.

有几位国家元首出席了葬礼。

"We can Gazette certain areas and, within that area, we can instruct people to move along and not dawdle and attempt to do something which is disruptive," said Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister.

“我们可以划定一些区域，在那些区域，我们会劝导人们不要逗留，也不要试图进行破坏性活动，”新加坡总理李显龙（lee hsien loong）表示。

From the sad reality of losing a cherished object down a sink or bathtub drain comes this idiom, meaning to do or attempt to do something that ultimately will be lost forever.

通过这个直观的解释，我们理解了这个成语。它的意思是“做或试图做一些最终将永远失去的事情”。

The phrase subsequently came to mean an embarrassing loss of face in general, particularly when people attempt to do something flashy or impressive and instead end up looking stupid.

这个词后来被用来形容尴尬、丢脸的场合，特别用来形容人们本想引人注目，最后却事与愿违。