Though he had prepared well before the job interview, he failed to answer some important questions.

虽然他在面试前就做了充分的准备，但在一些重要的问题上他却没有回答上来。

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One answer, I soon discovered, lay in people's beliefs about why they had failed.

我很快发现，答案之一在于人们对失败原因的看法。

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Muddling through by trying to resurrect a failed banking system, which will likely fail again, is not the answer.

试着救活已经失败并很可能再次失败的金融系统，这样胡乱应对的方案是行不通的。

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So the basic idea was fine, but I failed to satisfy the initial condition that the answer had to be between the lower bound and the upper bound. Right?

因此基础的思想是对的，但是程序没能满足,正确答案在给定的区间内这个条件,对不对？

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His efforts to get an answer that evening failed, but he said he was unsurprised by the delay.

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It also failed to answer the programme's main points about the sales tactics used by Lifestyle Claims.

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He failed to answer bail after being held on suspicion of theft and perverting the course of justice.

BBC: John Cattermole