An impacted wisdom tooth is one that fails to completely rise through the gums -- the term is erupt.

VOA: special.2011.08.10

If you can figure out why fails on three letters instead of 12, you'll be more than half way to solving the problem.

如果你能明白为什么程序,在输入三个字母的单词的时候没法运行,你就已经解决了问题的一半了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And dualism simply says, "It's all nonphysical, it's part of the ether," and hence fails to explain it.

二元论只是说,"心灵是无形的,是世界的一部分",因此并不能给出合理的解释

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But if irrigation fails, the best thing to do is to go to a health careprovider for professional assistance.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

The problem is, if your brokerage firm fails you could lose a lot; you could lose your cash account and your security account.

可问题是,一旦经纪公司破产,你可能损失惨重,赔光你现金账户和证券账户上所有的资金

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And when the system fails, it is my responsibility." President Obama campaigned on a promise of "change we can believe in."

VOA: special.2010.01.23

Because we know most organizational change fails, because we know more individual change fails.

因为我们知道大多数组织上的改变都失败了，因为我们知道更多的个人改变失败了。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Many critics say Wal-Mart fails to pay its workers fairly or provide them with enough health insurance.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

So if we understand the argument in terms of the second interpretation, it looks as invisible. It looks all the argument still go through, Simmias' counterexample fails.

所以如果我们以第二种解释,理解这个论证，灵魂是无形的,所有的论证仍然讲得通，西米亚斯的反例无效了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

European officials hope to avoid the crisis that could spread if Greece fails to pay its debts.

VOA: special.2010.02.12

The first was the objection, the claim that utilitarianism, " by concerning itself with the greatest good for the greatest number, fails adequately to respect individual rights.

第一点异议，是说功利主义，只关注“为最多的人谋求最大的幸福，没有充分地尊重个人权利。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

She says she does not want to disappoint herself when she fails to keep them.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

There's just no dirty trick that anybody fails to do if it can.

各种卑鄙战术,无所不用其极

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"If the monsoon basically fails or is a very weak one, the trees affected by monsoons at that location might put on a very narrow ring.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

If virtue fails to triumph over evil, then what?

如果贞操无法战胜邪恶，会怎样呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And now,before my courage fails, I would ask you, to be mine in marriage.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

And the reason that quantum mechanics is going to work where classical mechanics fails is that classical mechanics did not take into account the fact that matter has both wave-like and particle-like properties, and light has both wave-like and particle-like properties.

上发生的行为,量子力学得以成功,而经典力学却失败的原因,是因为经典力学,不能包容物质的，波动性和粒子性,和光的波动性和粒子性。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

If it fails,people will know it. And they will try to hold it accountable."

VOA: special.2010.07.23

I think we're meant to understand that he is so focused on the question of redemption that he fails to see anything else; he fails to see anyone else in his preoccupation with that problem.

我想我们得知道,他正被救赎的问题所困扰,在他被次纠缠时,他看不到任何事;,也看不到任何人。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Only one thing remains to be tried and if that fails,we are ruined!"

VOA: special.2009.09.26

Arguably, Freud fails the test because Freudian theory is often so vague and flexible that it can't really be tested in any reliable way.

可以肯定的是，弗洛伊德的理论无法得到验证,因为精神分析理论的内容,太过模糊又太易变通,你无法通过任何可靠的方式,去验证它的正确性。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In this story,a trial takes place to decide if the moneylender Shylock can take a pound of flesh from a borrower who fails to repay his loan.

VOA: special.2011.06.06

If it fails, those guys will lose out because I'm going to lose anyway.

如果没有中奖,这些家伙就全赔了,反正我也快倒闭了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But often he fails. The expression was born in the military forces.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

There are some very poor areas in Africa where farmers really run the risk-- if their crop fails it could be really bad; they would be approaching starvation.

在非洲有一些非常贫困的地区,那里的农民真的面临着巨大的风险,一旦庄稼歉收 他们的处境将变得很糟糕,他们将经历饥荒

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It fails to set detailed targets for cuts in carbon emissions.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

One of the reasons for thinking it's not clear whether the argument fails or not is because it's hard to pin down, where exactly did it go wrong?

并不能确定这个论证是否成立,的其中一个原因就是,我们很难确定,到底是哪里出了问题

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He suggests it only when drug therapy fails to work.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

So I think the Freudian argument just fails.

所以弗洛伊德的论点就失效了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I take it that we all agree that when we attempt to run the Cartesian argument in terms of the Morning Star and the Evening Star, it fails. But it's harder to say what went wrong?

我想大家都同意,当我们试图把卡氏论证,用到晨星和昏星的例子上来时,它行不通了,但是很难说我们哪里错了

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选