He told them: "The war for the Union is, in your hands, a most bloody and costly failure.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

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

This is where evaluation comes in. The success or failure of a poem depends on the realization of meaning.

这时就需要评估介入了，一首诗好与坏,取决于它含义表达是否清晰。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"My sister has been in renal failure for months now." "You're supposed to give her a kidney?"

VOA: special.2009.06.12

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

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

VOA: special.2009.05.10

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

Heart failure is caused by high blood pressure or coronary artery disease, a narrowing of the arteries in the heart.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

This was motivated by a spectacular failure of a brokerage, Goodbody & Co., in 1970.

一家证券经纪行的倒闭改变了这一状况,古德巴迪公司,于1970年倒闭

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"Its failure could have resulted in a 1930s-style global financial and economic meltdown, with catastrophic implications for production, income and jobs,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

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

McChrystal described a situation in which the Taliban and related groups are advancing, and said he needs more resources to avoid mission failure.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

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

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says there has been a systemic failure in giving tribal communities in remote areas a stake in economic development.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

That was to protect depositors in the case of bank failure and it was a very important innovation because, at that time, there were huge runs on banks.

以保护储户在银行破产中免受损失,该机构的成立是个创举,因为那段时期,银行遭到挤兑

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But it found a significant increase in the risk of heart failure where the heart cannot pump enough blood to the organs or muscles.

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

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

"The failure to devise a clear, Mr.Secretary,and credible plan for employing TARP, has also resulted in a massive waste, some people believe,of taxpayer dollars,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

In a statement,the State Department said the decision was made in recognition of the de facto regime's failure to restore democratic, constitutional rule to Honduras.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

"In a real sense,we had 700 days of failure and one day of success,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Italy's foreign minister recently called the U.S.leadership in the crisis a "pathetic" failure.

VOA: standard.2010.01.26

However it was the Communists' subsequent failure to secure election of their presidential candidate that prompted a new election in July which brought the pro-western coalition to power.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

"It is very important," "I think the failure to pass health-care legislation this year will be a tremendous setback for the administration and for the leadership in Congress."

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

Failure in a place like Afghanistan would have international reverberations.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

Despite what he sees as a failure of the global community to come to an agreement at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last December, McKibben says international cooperation on climate change is critical.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Failure to maintain tight control of glucose levels - by measuring blood sugar with a meter and compensating with doses of insulin - can result in serious health complications, including blindness, kidney failure and heart disease.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Mohammad Akhter,Executive Director of the National Medical Association, said reform is needed to deal with an explosion of chronic disease in the United States, adding that failure to pass a bill now would mean more expense for the country later.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21