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As noted above, governments have undertaken trade sanctions authorized by the WTO in just three instances （2 hormones, 1 bananas）. In none of those three cases did compliance ensue as a result. Certainly, three data points is too small of a set to draw a conclusion about the inefficacy of trade sanctions, or the threat of trade sanctions, to induce trade compliance. But one cannot easily assume that sanctions are the jewel of the WTO system, as some commentators allege.

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Only in a few cases were trade sanctions applied. Even so, compliance did not materialize as expected. On the other hand, one would not easily consider trade sanctions to be the jewel of the WTO system.

只有在少数几个案例中实施了贸易制裁，甚至在这种情况下履约也没有如期出现。另一方面，人们不会轻易地认为贸易制裁是世贸组织体系的法宝。

句子分析

Three data points are too small of a set to draw a conclusion about the inefficacy of trade sanctions, or the threat of trade sanctions, to induce trade compliance.

这句虽然有点长，但是个简单句，其中：

　　1）“too small of a set to draw a conclusion”是由“too”+ 形容词 + 动词不定式构成的结构，表示“太…以致不能”的意思；

　　2）介词短语“about the inefficacy of trade sanctions, or the threat of trade sanctions, to induce trade compliance”作定语，修饰名词“conclusion”，其中的动词不定式“to induce trade compliance”作定语，修饰名词“inefficacy” 。

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