我正开车回家，突然刹车失灵了。
我骑自行车下山到中途刹车失灵了。
这辆车上的刹车完全失灵了。
离合器因过热而失灵了。
飞机飞到大西洋中部时一个发动机失灵了。
制导系统失灵了，所以导弹没能命中目标。
The guidance systems didn't work and the missile couldn't hit its target.
她把柴油代替汽油灌入油箱，造成发动机失灵。
She put diesel fuel, instead of petrol, into the tank causing the motor to seize up.
然后这些鸽子飞进浓雾中，著名的归巢本能失灵了。
Then the pigeons flew into thick fog, and the famous homing instinct failed.
他们的电子导航装置失灵了，一个巨浪吞没了那只船。
Their electronic navigation failed and a rogue wave swamped the boat.
当锅炉的一个安全阀失灵时，居民们听到了一声巨响。
Residents heard an enormous bang as a safety valve on the boiler failed.
科学家们警告说紧急冷却系统可能失灵，核反应堆的堆芯熔毁可能会发生。
Scientists warned that emergency cooling systems could fail and a reactor meltdown could occur.
我试图关机，而它完全失灵了。
I tried to shut the computer down, and it seized up altogether.
有时，设备的失灵是因为尽管设计是好的，但却不当地使用低质量的材料来进行生产。
Sometimes devices fail because a good design is constructed with low-quality materials incompetently applied.
当我想停车时，刹车失灵了。
当他的降落伞失灵时，他想他算完了。
飞机起飞后电力系统失灵了。
当然，当市场在2007年失灵时，是政府的果断干预挽救了局面。
Of course, when the markets came crashing down in 2007, it was decisive government intervention that saved the day.
他说，如果飞机的两个引擎都失灵了，飞机就会变成一个“滑翔机”。
He said that if both engines of the plane had failed, the aircraft would become like a "glider".
另一些人因为他们的水上摩托车失灵或在远离海岸的地方沉没而被困在海上。
Others have been stranded at the sea when their scooters either failed or sank far from shore.
因此，有人将货币政策的实施比作驾驶一辆挡风玻璃变黑、后视镜破裂、方向盘失灵的汽车。
Hence the analogy that likens the conduct of monetary policy to driving a car with a blackened windscreen, a cracked rear-view mirror and a faulty steering wheel.
因此，有人将货币政策的实施比作驾驶一辆挡风玻璃变黑、后视镜破裂、方向盘失灵的汽车。
Hence the analogy that likens the conduct of monetary policy to driving a car with a blackened windscreen, a cracked rear-view mirror and a faulty steering wheel.
由于许多大型卫星已经停止运行，最近有人提议在太空中引爆这些卫星，以消除失灵卫星的干扰。
Because many of those large satellites have ceased to function, the proposal recently been made to eliminate interference from nonfunctioning satellites by exploding them in space.
当然，太阳时钟只能在晴天工作；当温度下降到接近冰点时，水钟就会失灵，长期漂浮的东西因为下沉或堵塞而无法工作。
Sun clocks worked, of course, only on clear days; water clocks misbehaved when the temperature fell toward freezing, to say nothing of long-run drift as the result of sedimentation and clogging.
每当下雨，我们的车就失灵。
刹车失灵。
然后，他们卡车的发动机失灵了。
市场失灵最悲惨的情况莫过于此。
我从来不曾目睹过那么多系统同时失灵。
在这种情况下，信息本身可能导致市场失灵。
In such circumstances, information itself can lead to market failures.
真正令人震惊的是“有序的多元化”的失灵。
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