"Zhang, who clearly relishes his reputation for success, would appear to still feel the sting of that very public failure," the cable concluded.

电文总结说，张国宝明显是津津乐道他的成功的声誉，但似乎还是能感觉到被公开的失败刺痛。

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While I knew I shouldn't let it, the mailman's morning delivery of another rejection letter for an article I'd submitted to a magazine made me feel like a black cloud of failure hung over my head.

虽然我知道自己不该这样，但是早班邮差送来的又一封我给杂志投稿的退稿信就象是一片失败的乌云挂在我的头顶上。

youdao

And though we feel short, the failure is mine, not yours.

尽管失败是短暂的，但是这是我的失败，不是你们的。

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It remains to be seen whether he and the politicians who fail to raise the debt ceiling on August 2 will feel secure in dealing with the economic and political consequences of that failure.

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The right set of emotions can even make up for bad numbers or technical uncertainty in high risk startups- whereas great numbers will rarely make up for a failure to make people feel the right way about what you are doing.

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The Pharaohs were stung by their failure to qualify for South Africa, and they will feel their absence all the more keenly after another superb display at the Nations Cup.

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