Drilling techniques that work well in one place can fail in another.

钻探技术可能在一个地方有用，在另一个地方就会失去作用。

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I deliberately fail to understand. I know I am unlikely to stay in a place like this ever again, so I watch my credit card slip into the machine.

我故意不去听懂他的话，我知道我不太会再有机会住在这样的地方，所以看着我的信用卡塞进了拉卡机。

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The reason is that many projects embarking on SOA fail because they get caught up in the implementation details before they have a good model for defining services in the first place.

其原因在于，许多进行 SOA 的项目之所以失败，是因为它们没有首先建立定义服务的良好模型就开始着手实现细节。

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The two main aims of the new laws are to make banks less likely to fail in the first place and, if failure is inevitable, to make it less painful for others.

ECONOMIST: Dealing with bad banks

Such laws are in place because people fail to disclose assets even in heavily litigated cases.

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Some governments in Asia even fail to admit that they harbour the diseases in the first place.

ECONOMIST: Philanthropy