To call this a moral failing — and a newmoral failing at that!

将这称为一种道德缺失——而且是一种新的道德缺失！

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Yet some people wonder if our inner values matter anymore. After all, hasn't our noted bank executive succeeded in every visible way, despite his moral failing?

然而，有些人会怀疑，我们的内在价值还重要吗？毕竟，我们这位有名的银行主管尽管品行不端，还不是照样在各方面很成功？

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But this audience was dwarfed by the 13m who tuned in this week to see Dominique Strauss-Kahn, once the Socialist front-runner, confess to his “moral failing” in a New York hotel room in May.

但是这与本周观看卡恩负罪人数相比，则是小巫见大巫了。 多米尼克•斯特劳斯•卡恩一度是社会党的领跑者，本周他承认了五月在纽约酒店房间里的“道德过失”。

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Wartman vilifies "the food industry" for providing consumers with calorie-rich products at low prices--that is, for feeding the poor, hardly a moral failing.

WSJ: Best of the Web Today: The Other Obesity Problem

Science has shown that drug addiction is not a moral failing but rather a disease of the brain that can be prevented and treated.

WHITEHOUSE: 2012 National Drug Control Strategy

The student-teachers may not have been punishing the violinist for just any moral failing, but for betraying his art by ruining the art of others.

WSJ: The Betrayal of Art by Artist-Vandals | Postmodern Times by Eric Felten