They are acting because national governments—Britain's and others across Europe—have failed to do so.

他们之所以采取行动，是因为英国和其他欧洲国家的政府未能做到这一点。

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She failed to do her duty.

她没有尽她的职责。

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IRAN has again failed to do deadlines.

伊朗再次不愿遵守最后期限。

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Yet critics say he failed to do his part to prevent the crisis.

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What was the key step that I said I needed to do on Friday but failed very publicly to do so?

至关重要的一步，我将在本周五跟大家细细道来,如果我很嚣张地失败了怎么办？

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"So,when an event like this occurs, it is incumbent upon a Democrat to react quickly and decisively, and Obama failed to do it."

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

But, thanks to 20 years of falling prices, Japan has simply failed to do this.

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"I clearly knew I had to do something and I failed to do it, " he said.

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Alistair Darling, the chancellor of the exchequer, has signally failed to do that in the PBR.

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