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

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

We don't know what it's like to be dead, because every time we try to imagine it, we fail.

我们不知道死亡是什么样的，因为每次我们想象死亡，都无果而终。

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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。

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General McChrystal requested additional forces in a report leaked to the news media last month, warning that the U.S.military effort could fail without them.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

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

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"So as you can imagine, if you are say 50,55 or younger, the surgeons will be very hesitant to place these metal joints in your body because knowing that in 10 to 15 years, there's a chance these would fail."

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

This is one example that, without fail, people would say is a marvel of medicine and bioengineering, but that it's still something to keep track of.

刚才就是一个例子,在技术上我们并没有失败,人们也会称赞医学和生物工程的神奇,但仍然需要注意可能发生的情况

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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。

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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

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I know that may seem like a surprising thing to say when I've just sort of gone on my little gleeful amount about how I'm going to fail all of you, but it's worth my saying you guys are so smart.

我知道这说起来很奇怪,当我有些幸灾乐祸的说,关于我怎么让你们全部不合格，但是这值得我说你们聪明非常。

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But nobody believes the government when they say that because people say, surely the U.S. Government is not going to allow Fannie and Freddie to fail.

但是没人相信政府表态,因为人们觉得美国政府肯定不会,让房利美和房地美倒闭的

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