In nineteen sixty-four Abe Pollin bought a failing basketball team from Baltimore,Maryland and brought it to his hometown.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

If the student hasn't mastered the basic concept, we will make sure that the grade scheme gives a failing grade.

如果学生没有掌握基本的概念，我们会确保,成绩将会不及格。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

There are a lot of failing schools.

这里有许多学校运行不下去。

丰富多彩的社团活动 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The main character in "The Imperfectionists" by Tom Rachman is a failing English language newspaper published in Rome,Italy.

VOA: special.2010.12.31

This puts the British Government in an embarrassing situation of owning a failing mortgage lender, so they've got to now be the government collecting on all these mortgages; it's a mess.

承认其银行抵押贷款出现严重问题,着实令英国政府颜面扫地,所以现在不得不由政府出面,收购所有这些抵押贷款,真是一团乱

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

An F is a failing grade worth zero toward a student's grade point average.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

Since he's a Yale guy, he probably thinks of himself as the Matt Damon character perhaps not, and failing that, he'd like to coordinate at the Bourne Ultimatum.

因为他是耶鲁人,他把自己当成马特·达蒙扮演的特工了,如果不成,他就希望去看《谍影重重》

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

In nineteen thirty-three, Eugene Meyer had bought a failing newspaper, The Washington Post.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

" Why are so many kids failing as a result of their circumstances?"

为什么那么多孩子因为成长环境而堕落“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"It is easy to say create a commission. Does it mean anywhere we have a failing we create a commission?

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

So, you would expect a child who just grew up with a mother or just grew up to be a father--with a father to be in some sense psychologically damaged by that, failing to go through the normal psychosexual stages.

你会看到由单身母亲抚养长大的孩子,或由单身父亲抚养长大的孩子,在某种意义上,会因此而形成心理创伤，从而无法正常地经历所有的性心理阶段。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Failing to report an injury like this,can be dangerous if a patient,or a medical worker, has an infectious disease.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

The steelworkers union called the strike after failing to reach a wage agreement with company officials.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

He had a heart attack at his home in Florida after several years of failing health.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

The United States is a nation of failing businesses, closed factories and angry citizens.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

The bill provides a way for the government to close failing banks.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

He told students it was time for them to learn what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when every living system was failing.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

Both companies have declared bankruptcy after failing to recover from a drastic drop in auto sales.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

Labor has come under vehement criticism from the opposition Conservatives for the government's bail-out of failing banks and for large public spending that many analysts say will leave future generations with a mounting public debt.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

To some in Washington, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is the master economist whose aggressive actions and creative solutions prevented complete economic collapse in 2008, when major American banks, investment firms,insurance companies, and home mortgage giants were failing at a catastrophic pace.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

Facing a barrage of criticism for failing to get adequate justice for the tens of thousands of victims of the Bhopal gas leak, the government has said it needs to revisit laws pertaining to the kind of industrial disaster witnessed in Bhopal.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

"In some of the governorates, have not a single member working, without any source of income, which is in turn having a huge impact on their ability to afford rented accommodation and their ability to buy food in a country where the public distribution system is failing quite badly,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.20