Victories may not come just by willing them, but prophecies of defeat are often self-fulfilling.

胜利可能不会因为你的央求而垂青于你，而失败往往是自我实现的预言。

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It can hold you back for a while, but it's not the end of the world - unless you let it defeat you.

它可能会阻扰你一段时间，但是它并不是世界的终点——除非你让它打败你。

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The serious debate is therefore not between victory or defeat but over how to mitigate the consequences of a disaster that has already taken place.

因此，孰胜孰败已不重要，人们争论的焦点是，既然灾难已经发生，怎样将破坏降到最小。

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But not everyone believes that more U.S.troops, however rapidly deployed, will assure the defeat of Taliban militants and deny terrorists a safe haven from which to plan attacks on Western targets.

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But the result was defeat, not only in Cuba itself but in the Philippines: a defeat that helped to consign Spain to a period of confusion and weakness from which it is only now decisively emerging.

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Fulham pushed centre-back Brede Hangeland up into attack late on but could not avoid defeat, with Konchesky's dismissal for a tackle on Taddei rubbing salt into their wounds.

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But these alone did not defeat Hannibal.

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