The central bank would work with a proposed Financial Services Oversight Council to decide which companies are too big to fail.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

Don't fail him or he will drive you out just as he drove out the Canaanites. That's a theme in Deuteronomy.

不要让他失望，否则他也会驱逐你,就如同他驱逐迦南人，这是《申命记》的一个主题。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But in spite of your best effort, you fail to lose a single kilogram.

但是即便你这么努力，你还是一斤肉都没减下来。

I'm frustrated 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

A "run on the bank" usually happens when people believe there is danger a bank may fail or close.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

This is actually something very near and dear to my heart because I literally would not be doing what I do in life today had I not taken a couple of courses here, this one in particular, pass fail.

事实上，我是很关心的,因为今天我就不会站在这里,如果当初我没有这里上课的话，这门课，要么过要么挂科。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Last week, the government lost its case against two managers at Bear Stearns, the first investment bank to fail last year.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

In fact, if that person has a 48 and the first person who had the weaker score has a 46, I could still pass the person with the 46, and fail the person with the 48.

事实上，如果这个人得了48分，而第一个人,得分低一点，是46分，我还是会让46分的人通过，而让48分的人挂科。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

was too big to fail. The Federal Reserve rescued the American International Group with an eighty-five billion dollar loan.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

I was checking the web yesterday and I found a new book about Machiavelli, which none of these every fail to surprise me.

我昨天上网查了一下,发现一本谈马奇亚维利的新书，内容并无让我感到太惊奇之处。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But even if those efforts fail, it is too soon to know just how strong the new rules will be.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

If the company gets too leveraged then there's too high a probability that the company will fail and there are costs to bankruptcy.

如果公司的杠杆率太高,那么公司倒闭的可能性会极高,然后会产生破产费用

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Such needle sticks are common. But a recent study found that medical students often fail to report them.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

But again, the disaster is to fail to coordinate and go to see different movies.

如果协调失败两人各看各的,就也是个悲剧了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And the crisis had to be solved. "If we fail," Roosevelt said, "the cause of self-government throughout the world will suffer greatly."

VOA: special.2010.08.26

There is also the constant, creative tension around experimentation and making sure everyone in the organization feels it's better to experiment, fail and then move on and experiment again than to not do that.

而且，在技术试验上，他总会持续迸发出创造性的火花,在这之前，马克会去确认,团队里的每一个人是否同意试验，如果第一次失败，我们会继续,而不是停止试验。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

Government rescues of banks considered "too big to fail" angered the public and helped fuel a conservative movement.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

We tend to fail to discount the situation.

我们往往没有考虑到实际情况。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He dug deep into the darkness, hitting the steel so hard that his body began to fail him.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

- Part of the compulsion to repeat is, in a certain sense-- part of the hope of mastery in the compulsion to repeat is to keep up the kind of vigilance which you failed to have in the past and therefore fail to ward it off.

所以强迫性重复一部分可能是由于-,一种希望，人在重复回忆的时候,感觉可以保护自己，控制不让灾难再次发生,以便不会再次失足。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The aim is to find a way to let big financial companies fail without harming the economy.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

It might fail for a different reason.

其中有很多原因

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The farmers are paid back for the inputs if their crops fail because of drought or flood.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

But these things do fail.

但这些玩意确实会失效。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

For every one hundred graduates of for-profit colleges, eighteen fail to repay their federal student loans.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

Many a scholar are very reluctant to admit that there's any Mycenaean stuff here, although they cannot fail to concede that some of the physical implements that are found at Mycenaean sites are precisely like what Homer says.

许多学者不愿承认,存在于迈锡尼文明时期的文物,尽管他们勉强同意,在迈锡尼文明遗址中发现的文物,和荷马描述的非常接近

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"I knew of course that when examined again he would fail and be thrown out.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

The majority of kind of entrepreneurships or entrepreneurial companies fail pretty quickly.

大多数创业公司会很快地倒闭。

要想成为事业家 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I knew of course that when examined again he would fail and be thrown out.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

they enjoy the fact that it's on pass/fail.

课程只分通过和不及格。

做交换生来到这里 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And five weeks less one day later I decided you know what this might actually be for me and I switched from pass-fail to letter graded status at that point in time.

而第五周的最后一天,我从上及格-不及格制的课程转为上数字学分制的课程,你们可能知道这对我来说意味着什么。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选