The main character is a journalist in flight from a failed marriage.

主角是一个逃避失败婚姻的记者。

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By doing so, we will become more easy-going and accessible, and thus more likely to avoid unnecessary conflicts and frictions with others, a common trigger for a failed relationship.

这样，我们会变得更随和，更容易接近，从而更有可能避免与他人不必要的冲突和摩擦，而不必要的冲突和摩擦是导致一段失败的关系的常见因素。

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This left the Bay of Biscay as a failed rift.

这使得比斯开湾成为一个衰亡裂谷。

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

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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。

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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。

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Whitman joined the board in January after she a failed race to be governor of California.

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New York had a failed 5-on-3 advantage that lasted 44 seconds in the first period.

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The central character, Babylen Tatarsky, is a failed poet working as a sales assistant.

ECONOMIST: Russian satire