The report says national governments have failed to honor a biodiversity protection treaty.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

So there was a big bank run and Northern Rock would have failed if the Bank of England hadn't come by to rescue them.

从而出现挤兑狂潮,若非英格兰银行施以援手,北岩银行恐怕早就倒闭了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Not only they have failed in bringing about positive change, they actually brought about negative change.

不仅没有实现正面的改变，实际上是带去了负面的改变。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But,during the past three years, some have failed to fly south.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

So far those efforts have failed for a variety of reasons.

截止目前,这些尝试,由于各种原因均失败了

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Other studies since then have failed to show such a link.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

So if in fact I wanted to make sure this was a number, I should have done something like either try and convert it to a number, which of course failed here, or put in a check to say where it is.

因此实际上如果我想确保,这是一个数字的话，我们的课程上的代码,在这里失败了，你或许应该在这里，放一个检查的东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"The people we deal with are the people who have tried to cross the border and who have failed."

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

- Part of the compulsion to repeat is, in a certain sense-- part of the hope of mastery in the compulsion to repeat is to keep up the kind of vigilance which you failed to have in the past and therefore fail to ward it off.

所以强迫性重复一部分可能是由于-,一种希望，人在重复回忆的时候,感觉可以保护自己，控制不让灾难再次发生,以便不会再次失足。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But he added that U.S.policies to force change on the island, including an economic embargo, have failed to bring about democracy.

VOA: standard.2009.04.19

Dialysis is done millions of times per day in this country and around the world, and keeps people alive when their kidneys have failed and they wouldn't survive for even a week without dialysis.

在美国乃至全世界,每天进行着上百万次的透析,肾脏丧失功能的病人靠透析得以存活,如果没有透析他们活不过一个星期

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

As first the U.S.and then the world economy slipped into recession, several efforts to unlock credit have failed.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Some of your response papers that you'll hand in-- " none of them are graded; they are all just graded "pass/failed"-- you'll have to hand them in and then you'll pass.

一些你们要交上来的课后论文-,都不会被打分，都只会有“及格和不及格-,你们必须交论文，然后你们就及格了。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Most efforts to curb their spread have failed, and many people resort to killing the toads with poison gases or by freezing them.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

"We have failed to listen to America." "And,we have failed to reflect the will our our constituents.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

Scores of American banks have failed since the start of the financial crisis that helped plunge the United States into a deep and prolonged recession.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

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

Arizona Republicans say the state needed to take action because U.S.officials have failed to enforce existing laws that could stop the flow of illegal immigrants from Mexico.

VOA: standard.2010.05.08

"The point is . you know the negotiations have failed so far.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

Jean Mamboundou says opposition parties have failed to heed civil society's call for a single candidate because many believe they can win the election outright on their own.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

But the secretary also said senior officials are aware that past efforts have failed, and he said it is not clear whether the view in Tehran has changed.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

Repeated attempts to allow the species to recover have failed under the pressure to supply a market willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a single fish.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

the Hudson Institute scholar argues that the principle cause of continued violence in the Middle East - and the reason so many peace initiatives have failed - is Arab culture itself.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

But despite weeks of negotiations, the three main political parties - the Maoists,the Nepali Congress, and the Communist Party known as UML have failed to reach a consensus on who should head a new government.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

Denis Hayes said lawmakers in Washington have repeatedly failed to make the environment a central issue.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

If their plan failed, Lee would have no other choice.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

Birns says the strategy has failed for Micheletti,however, because liberal and conservative governments across the hemisphere have given unanimous support to ousted President Zelaya.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

efforts to curb drug demand, including law enforcement and anti-addiction efforts, have largely failed,and that U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

"If you have two or three sovereign state institutions fighting each other, it means democracy failed,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

Nigerian Information Minister Dora Akunyili told reporters a range of measures have been introduced to boost security at airports in response to the failed attack.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28