The natural question, at this point, is to say how can failure be a positive? Let me put this positive turning of baggage another way.
关于这一点，很自然地就会由这样一个问题：失败怎么会有积极的一面呢？
Fear of failure can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
害怕失败可能真会导致失败。
The mere mention of the words "heart failure" can conjure up, to the layman, the prospect of imminent death.
一提到“心力衰竭”几个字，外行人就会想到立即死亡。
Failure can also teach us things about ourselves that we would never have learned otherwise.
失败也可以让我们了解自己，若非经历失败，可能永远都了解不到。
For instance, failure can help you discover how strong a person you are.
例如，失败可以帮助你发现自己有多强大。
We can look at failure as the incredible learning experience that it often is.
我们可以把失败看作是极好的学习经历，而事实通常也是如此。
We can choose to see failure as "the end of the world".
我们可以选择把失败看作是“世界末日”。
Iconoclasts face alienation and failure, but can also be a major asset to any organization.
反传统者面临着被疏远和失败的处境，但他们也可能成为任何组织的主要资产。
I will never resign myself to failure for I believe I can make progress if I keep trying.
我不会听任失败的摆布，因为我相信只要一直努力就能取得进步。
Accepting failure and learning from it can help you better avoid failure.
接受失败并从中学习能让你更好地避免失败。
Professor Johnson, last night when I was putting the finishing touches on my paper, a computer failure completely wiped out my files, do you think I can have another day to retype it?
约翰逊教授，昨天晚上我对我的论文做最后的润色时，电脑发生故障，我的文件全被清除了。你能不能再给我一天时间，把它重新打一遍？
One thing that can hold joy back is a person's concentration on avoiding failure rather than their looking forward to doing something well.
有一件事会抑制快乐，那就是一个人专注于避免失败，而不是期待把事情做好。
Failure can demotivate students.
失败会挫伤学生的积极性。
Health experts say ingesting a small amount of melamine poses no danger, but in larger doses, it can cause kidney stones and lead to kidney failure.
健康专家表示，摄入小量三聚氰胺不会有危险，但如果摄入量很大，可导致肾结石，并会诱发肾衰竭。
We can perhaps claim compensation from the steel suppliers for failure to deliver on time.
对于钢材供应商未能按时交货一事，我们也许可以向他们提出索赔。
In part, this stress can be attributed to the overlords' failure to adjust to a rapidly expanding economy, but the stress was also due to factors beyond the overlords' control.
在一定程度上，这种压力可以归结为霸主未能适应快速扩张的经济，但这种压力也是由霸主无法控制的因素造成的。
Not trying is, of course, the ultimate failure, for it means you can never make progress toward your goals.
最彻底的失败当然就是不去尝试，因为这意味着，你永远都不能向着自己的目标进发。
Failure to encode properly can create annoying situations.
无法正确编码会造成恼人的后果。
Not even a great health-care system can cure death—and our failure to confront that reality now threatens this greatness of ours.
即使是一个伟大的医疗体系也无法治愈死亡，而我们未能直面这一现实，现在正威胁着我们的伟大。
Heterogeneity in societies will be the rule in the 21st century, and failure to recognize and plan for such diversity can lead to serious crime problems.
社会的多样性将成为21世纪的规则，如果未能认识到这种多样性并为之做准备，可能会造成严重的犯罪问题。
Failure can never defeat me but only intensify my desire to succeed.
失败永远无法打败我，只会增强我对获得成功的渴望。
It's a fact not lost on American educators, who amid rising math failure rates are debating how math can better meet the real-life needs of students.
美国的教育工作者并没有忘记这个事实，他们在数学不及格率上升的情况下，正在讨论如何让数学更好地满足学生的实际需要。
失败可以带来进步。
If we focus on one thing at a time and learn from failure, we can succeed in the end.
如果我们一次只专注于一件事，并从失败中吸取教训，最终我们就可以成功。
Although there are some situations where we may experience hardship or even failure, we can always smile to ourselves.
虽然在某些情况下，我们可能会经历困难甚至失败，但我们总是可以对自己微笑。
The story of the Apple Newton can teach us an important lesson about failure.
苹果牛顿的故事告诉我们一个与失败有关的重要道理。
Failure in the past doesn't mean we can never succeed in the future.
过去的失败并不意味着未来的我们永远不能成功。
Old age for them, and many old Americans can mean not only the possible failure of one's health, but the loss of identity and self-worth.
对于他们，以及许多美国老年人来说，老年不仅意味着健康可能会衰退，还意味着身份和自我价值的丧失。
Failure is the mother of success. If there is nothing good about failure, how can it be the mother of success?
失败是成功之母，失败如果没有好处，为什么是成功之母？
Can we minimize failure by mapping predict all that a user might ever want?
我们能通过预测所有用户可能的需求而把失败最小化吗？
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