The seeds can also resist the Striga weed, a big cause of crop failures in Africa.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

It's about changing our interpretation of the world, of what's happening to us, of our achievements, of our failures.

要改变我们对世界的诠释，以及我们的遭遇，成就，失败。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

or the trains break down or there are power failures,

或者火车出故障了，或者电力不足了，

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These struggles and failures made Taft's four years as president the unhappiest of his life.

VOA: special.2010.09.02

Bank failures occur when there's not enough gold in the vault and then people start asking for the gold and the goldsmith banker doesn't have it to give out.

当金库没有足够的黄金时,银行就会倒闭,因为当人们开始索要黄金时,金匠银行家却拿不出来

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

There were power failures, which made it difficult to warn drivers about flooded streets.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

You can't just add up all the pleasures and subtract the pains, or add up all the accomplishments and subtract the failures, or add up all the knowledge and subtract the ignorance and deception.

你不能只是把快乐加起来然后减去痛苦，或者仅是把成功相加再减去失败，或者把学问相加再减去蒙昧和欺骗。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The chief of British Petroleum blames failures by the rig's operator, Transocean of Switzerland.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

So another parallel is people talk about these highly intelligent people from whom the President that surrounded himself, erh, FDR surrounded himself with highly intelligent people, that is no guarantee of anything, except brilliant rationalization for failures in some cases.

所以从另一个方面说,人们总在谈论这些,聪明的人,总统身边的，呃，罗斯福身边,就有高智商的人，但那保证不了什么，他们只能为失败,找到托词。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

They tell about the successes, failures and desires of one man throughout his life.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

Once the rumor got started that Asia was in trouble, these people started withdrawing their money faster and faster and it caused failures of domestic banks in these countries.

一时间流言四起,亚洲陷入困境,资金加速流出,这些国家的本土银行纷纷倒闭

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Successes and failures would all be reported to the world.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Mechanical failures had been repaired.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

And,despite continuing bank failures, Geithner says America's financial system has also been rescued and a catastrophic credit squeeze has eased.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

"I quite often get an intense feeling of life and death, of the sort of achievements and failures of the people."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

But he said the failures that led to a potentially catastrophic breach in security must be addressed immediately.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

Dodd says the failures have hurt middle class Americans the most.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16