What happens is your immune response goes haywire and then your body starts to attack itself, so theres a failure to shutdown.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

I think it's telling that this kind of creation is a failure; it cannot succeed in the confines of this novel.

我想这告诉我们这种创作是失败的;,它在这本小说的界限内无法成功。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

To some extent, the subprime crisis is a failure of Basel II, which is not even fully born yet.

从某种程度上讲,次贷危机就是新巴塞尔协议的一次失败,该协议甚至还没有正式生效

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"Rather than a failure to collect or share intelligence," he said, "this was a failure to connect and understand the intelligence that we already had."

VOA: special.2010.01.09

This was a failure because people could not go near the tickle machine without convulsing in laughter.

这是一个失败的发明,因为人们还没靠近挠痒痒的机器,就已经被它的模样逗笑了

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Professor Desai says the search for solutions after a failure can make leaders more open-minded.

VOA: special.2010.09.09

If the meaning is not clear in the poem, we judge the poem a failure.

如果诗歌的意思表达不明确，那么它就称不上是首好诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Autoimmune diseases result from a failure of the body's own defenses against disease.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

So think about, I don't want to push this too hard but think about other games where people are communicating to fail, to avoid a failure of coordination.

我不想把问题说得太严重,我们不妨举一些沟通失败的博弈案例,或者说努力避免沟通失败

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"Now I say to you gentlemen that this college is a failure.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

He calls that,and I quote, " "a failure of personal growth".

他将这称为，“个人成长的失败。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Bourke-White's first pictures inside the steel factory in Cleveland were a failure.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

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

For many years before that,however, he had been considered a failure.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

This is...isn't this an example of kind of thing that... ? a socialist would refer to as market failure?

莫非这正好验证了。,社会主义者关于资本主义市场失效的理论？

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

He said he feared his speech had been a failure.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

Because it says, your program will still give you a value, but it may not be what you intended, and you can't always tell, and that may propagate it's way down through a whole bunch of other computations before it causes some catastrophic failure.

因为这意味着，你的程序依然会返回一个值，但是这个值可能不是你想要的，你可能还分辨不出来，而且这种情况会传播,结果会沿着正果计算过程传播下去,直到产生一个灾难性的错误。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The feeling grew that Grant was a failure.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

It may be a kind of failure to conduct the logic.

或许有着某种不合理性和错误。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Behrman was a failure in art.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

But in fact, in his own way, he's talking about his inability ; to keep his child alive there; in a kind of metaphorical way, speaking of his failure to build a fence to last.

但事实上，以他自己的方式，他在诉说自己的无能,不能让孩子活下来;,以一种象征性的方式，谈论自己不能制作出一个一直在那的栅栏。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Senator Joe Lieberman is chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee: "By any measure, SBInet has been a failure."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

What's distinctive about the South: "The South has a tradition," Said Gurganus, "Of attempting the impossible at great cost, proudly celebrating the failure, and in gaining admiration for the performance."

写的是南方的独特之处,"南方有种传统",古尔加努斯说,"付出巨大的代价挑战命运,即便失败仍非常自豪,并因此而为他人所尊敬"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"If there was a failure to take appropriate action before the shootings, there must be accountability.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

If one component is missing we may have a failure.

即使缺少一个零部件都会导致失败

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And at that point,we believe there should be consequences for a failure to respond."

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

So it isn't a failure of communication per se.

所以说本质上不是缺少沟通

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Under questioning, spokesman Wood said the ensuing North Korean retaliation was not a failure of U.S.diplomacy, but a failure by Pyongyang to live up to its international obligations.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

And this is called the Pratfall Effect, that our liking for the competent person grows when they make a mistake, when they do something embarrassing, when they have a failure experience. Okay?

心理学上，这叫“失态效应，我们对有能力之人的喜爱之情再次升华,当他们犯错，出洋相，经历很衰的事情时？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So, it really is -it really ought to be on the bank's balance sheet and it ought to be regulated by the bank regulators, but there was a failure to do that and that is the problem that we are in currently.

所以说,它确实该...,它应该反映在银行的资产负债表上,同时接受银行监管体系的管理,但这却没能实现,这就是我们目前面临的问题

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选