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

VOA: special.2010.05.11

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

And this is absolutely not true; it's for the most part the entire freshman year for instance at MIT is taking pass-fail.

这绝对是不正确的;,例如，麻省理工学院的大部分新生在第一年参加的课程,都是采用及格-不及格的打分制度。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.07.29

What else I can do, there's no requirement for me to fail anybody.

我还做些其他什么呢，对于我让学生挂科这点没有任何的要求。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Mr.Obama also endorsed Geithner's request for power to seize financial institutions other than banks when they fail.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

You have to exclude those causes that generate moral hazard problems for the insurance to work; otherwise, the whole system will fail.

你得将一些,有可能会产生道德风险的情况,排除在外;,否则，整个保险系统就失效了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He also asserted the United States and other nations have tried to isolate Iran for the last 30 years, but have failed and will continue to fail.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

Should you fail to stop killing those babies, I think you should be punished for killing babies."

如果你不停止杀婴儿，你就会因为杀婴儿受到惩罚”

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"History shows us that when nations fail to cooperate or when turn away from one another, when they turn inward, the price for our people only grows,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

And if we also ask the positive question, then some new possibilities,new quests open up, just like they did for the researchers when they started to ask ?" no longer "why do so many individuals fail?"

如果我们也问积极问题，那就会出现新的可能性，新的探索，就像他们对研究学者所问的一样,不再问“为什么有这么多人堕落“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But if the two parties fail to make an agreement, Mr.Clegg could side with Labor, giving the party that has led Britain for more than a decade a chance to hold on to power.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

If that argument, if the argument-- If trying to run the Cartesian argument for astronomy fails, yet it seems to be an exactly analogous argument, we ought to conclude that the argument for the distinctness of the mind and the body must fail as well.

如果这个论证,如果把卡氏论证运用到天文学,是失败的,看来我们也不得不承认,类似的那个证明心灵,和身体不同的那个论证,必然也是失败的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

The Fed is taking on a serious risk in doing this because these assets that it takes on in exchange for Treasury securities could fail.

美联储这样做很有风险,因为这些他们作为国库证券交换来的,资产可能是个烂摊子。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选