The wonderful line he has in his last prose-fiction "Worstward Ho", Try again, fail again, fail better.

在他最后一部散文小说《向西去啊》有一句，再尝试，再失败，却更好地失败。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I don't want you to get all frustrated and fail to show what you know, so here are a couple of tips.

我不希望你受到挫折,由于失败而不能体现你所知道的，因此这儿有一些小提示。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The question, by the way, was when do children-- in that video when were the-- what were the ages of the children who failed and who passed?

顺便说一下,刚才的问题是,在影片中失败和通过任务的儿童,他们的年龄有多大

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

If Sarah stands, it doesn't help Sarah at all, she just loses.

如果莎拉参选,也不会对莎拉有任何帮助,她只会失败

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

There will be success and there will be failure.

既然有成功,就会有失败

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

By our informal count, however, we and the Afghan commandoes we work with were stopped on 70 percent of our attempts because we could not achieve the requisite 11 approvals in time.

粗略估算了一下，与我们一道工作的阿富汗突击队,有70%的尝试都失败了,因为我们不能按时拿到所需的11个批准。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Does he hold it out as a real possibility ? or must it be considered a failure in some way or that if the dialogue does end in failure ? what can we learn from that?

他是否坚持真有可能性,或那必需被多少视为是一项失败,如果对话以失败结束,我们又能从中学到什么？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So another parallel is people talk about these highly intelligent people from whom the President that surrounded himself, erh, FDR surrounded himself with highly intelligent people, that is no guarantee of anything, except brilliant rationalization for failures in some cases.

所以从另一个方面说,人们总在谈论这些,聪明的人,总统身边的，呃，罗斯福身边,就有高智商的人，但那保证不了什么，他们只能为失败,找到托词。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

But you could imagine that communication could break down here.

不过也可能有沟通失败的情况

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

In any war, particularly in this kind of war, reconciliation is something that typically happens very few wars end with total victory or total defeat, usuallly war ends with the parties get tired of or weakened enough.

在任何形式的战争，尤其是这样的战争中，和解很普遍,很少有战争是以全面胜利或者全面失败结束的，通常情况都是两方都疲惫不堪,被战争严重削弱。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

So in this game if you just played it, it's quite likely you're going to end up uncoordinated, but if you have a little bit of leadership can say okay let's make sure this is where we coordinate, or let's make sure this is where we coordinate.

如果你们真的进行这个博弈的话,很可能就会协调失败,可是如果你有一点领导力的话,你可以说我们合作达成这个结果吧,或者我们达成这个结果也行

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

While I was there, many many of people said to me: look, we want you to succeed we believe you mind your doing, we know you have good intentions and we hate these people when they were in power, but we have to live here, t succeed, and many people have come here and not succeed before you.

当我在那边的时候，很多人对我说：,我们想要你成功，我们知道你很在意你所做的事，我们知道你是好意的，恨这些掌权的人，但是我们得在这里生活，如果你不能成功，在你之前也有很多人失败了，and，if，you，can’

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选