"If there was a failure to take appropriate action before the shootings, there must be accountability.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

So if you want to invent, if you want to innovate, failure is part and parcel with that.

所以如果想要发明，想要创造，失败是不可或缺的。

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If the meaning is not clear in the poem, we judge the poem a failure.

如果诗歌的意思表达不明确，那么它就称不上是首好诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Gabisov chided participants for failure to discuss more specific measures, and noted the brutal lengths to which corrupt officials go if they are exposed in the press.

VOA: standard.2009.05.15

If one component is missing we may have a failure.

即使缺少一个零部件都会导致失败

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Does he hold it out as a real possibility ? or must it be considered a failure in some way or that if the dialogue does end in failure ? what can we learn from that?

他是否坚持真有可能性,或那必需被多少视为是一项失败,如果对话以失败结束,我们又能从中学到什么？

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Boards always want to keep their price of a share up because if it starts to decline, the company could become a takeover target; it's viewed as a failure etc., etc.

董事们想将股价维持在高水准上,因为股价一旦下滑,公司很可能会成为收购目标,被人看做是决策失误等等

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