They say Charlie Brown has failed again to do something right.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

Now never mind that our own experience with virgins has failed to afford us such a spectacle of bodily transformation.

没有关系，如果我们关于贞操的知识,之前未能告诉我们如此壮观的身体转换。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Frost describes it here, movingly, as, well, an image of a home that is lost, of a home that has failed.

弗罗斯特动情地描述了那栋房子，一个丧失了家的房子的画面，和一个失败的家庭。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He also recognizes that he has failed as a father.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

His memory has failed him and, given the general importance that I'm attributing to problems of remembering and forgetting, I think it's safe to assume that something important is going on here.

他的记忆背叛了他并且让我在这里提出的,关于记忆与遗忘的问题变得重要起来，我想假设这里有某种重要的事情发生了并不为过。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Prime Minister Singh criticized the existing global non-proliferation program, saying it has failed to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

But if you're trying to use that virus as a gene delivery vector and your body gets rid of it then the therapy has failed, it's ended.

但如果你想把腺病毒作为基因治疗载体,而你的身体清除这种病毒,治疗就失败了,前功尽弃了

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

A new study has failed to find any conclusive evidence that lifestyle changes can prevent cognitive decline in older adults.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

I have the freedom to pass that person because I like the trend. Suppose I have somebody else who came here with two years of chemistry in high school, got a 95 on the first test, 70 on the second test, failed the third test, failed the final, has an aggregate score of 48.

我能够选择让那人通过,因为我喜欢他的进步，假设另一个同学,学了2年的化学在高中,第一次测试得到95分，第二次70分，第三次没通过，期末考也没通过。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Mr.Mugabe has complained that Mr.Tsvangirai has failed to persuade western governments to lift the sanctions which he blames for Zimbabwe's economic problems.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

Government officials say General Motors has failed to reach an agreement on concessions from bondholders and the United Auto Workers labor union.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

The Iraqi parliament,until now, has failed in attempts to cobble together a bill over oil revenues that would satisfy both Kurds and Arabs.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

Birns says the strategy has failed for Micheletti,however, because liberal and conservative governments across the hemisphere have given unanimous support to ousted President Zelaya.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Mr.Mugabe complains that Mr.Tsvangirai has failed to persuade western governments to lift the targeted sanctions.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

He says America's land-for-peace formula has failed and it is time for a new approach.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

Kony has failed to show up to sign the peace agreement Matsanga helped negotiate.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

"This is about every family, every business and every taxpayer who continues to shoulder the burden of a problem that Washington has failed to solve for decades.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

He says the existence of fistulas means the health system has failed somewhere.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

But that model of touristic development has failed to convince some.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

"Toyota has failed to measure up to international standards;

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

John Nichols,a comparative media expert and Professor of Communications and International Affairs at Penn State University reiterated his longstanding criticisms of TV Marti, saying it has failed to build an audience.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

In blunt terms,the Foreign Affairs Select Committee report says Britain's military mission in Afghanistan has failed to deliver what it promised, because troops are being asked to do too many different tasks.

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

While joining the expressions of outrage, Republicans also took the opportunity to suggest that the Obama administration has failed to adequately monitor how government financial rescue funds, approved under former President George Bush, were being used.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

But the country has been split in half since a failed overthrow in two thousand two led to armed conflict.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

She says the Saudi leadership has not failed women;

VOA: special.2010.06.24

The Queensland government has defended its response to the disaster thus far amid accusations that it failed to act quickly enough.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

He says in recent years the United States has sometimes failed to live up to that responsibility.

VOA: standard.2009.05.23

As Geithner explained, the federal government has the power to take over and liquidate failed banks.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Another sticking point is pressure by the EU for Turkey to open its ports and airports to Greek Cypriot traffic, which it has so far failed to do.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

But the secretary also said senior officials are aware that past efforts have failed, and he said it is not clear whether the view in Tehran has changed.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05