I could try to take decisions by myself, but I had failed twice. I was still not sure if I had made the right decision.

我试图自己做决定，但两次遭到失败，我当时仍然不敢肯定我的决定是否正确。

youdao

Icould have failed, but even if I had, it wouldn’t really have mattered:I’d probably still have got close to my goal.

我可能会失败，但就算我失败了。 也没什么大不了的：这样也许我更接近我的目标呢。。。。

youdao

I now realize that I should have had the courtesy to acknowledge my gaffe and apologize, but words failed me at the time.

我现在已经意识到自己应该有礼貌地承认自己的失礼，然后表达歉意，但是当时却说不出这样的话来。

youdao

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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