Mr.Obama accused Republicans of playing politics with the issue, after at least one opposition senator said failure to pass health reform could "break" the president.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

Now it's different in important ways because it's really focused at preventing the collapse of the economy that is created by a financial system failure.

现在，这个不同有很重要的意义,因为它真正专注于,阻止被金融系统的失败而引发的,经济的崩溃。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So claims that--about the failure of conservation in children at different ages could be easily tested and systematically tested, and in fact, there's a lot of support for them.

关于不同年龄阶段的儿童,缺乏守恒概念的论断,能够很轻易的得到系统的检验,事实上,有相当多的证据支持这些论断

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And at that point,we believe there should be consequences for a failure to respond."

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

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

"Daily weight change is insensitive at predicting episodes of worsening heart failure."

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

What's distinctive about the South: "The South has a tradition," Said Gurganus, "Of attempting the impossible at great cost, proudly celebrating the failure, and in gaining admiration for the performance."

写的是南方的独特之处,"南方有种传统",古尔加努斯说,"付出巨大的代价挑战命运,即便失败仍非常自豪,并因此而为他人所尊敬"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

At the same time, skyrocketing rates of kidney failure, caused by diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, make it urgent to offer more - and more sophisticated - transplants.

VOA: standard.2010.05.30

It was scheduled to arrive in Tripoli at 6 o'clock " "We don't know where the communication failure happened, but what we can confirm is that were on board at the time."

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

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