But if it fails,then there is no guarantee of repayment.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

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

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

But if it fails, it will underscore the limits the international community faces in its efforts to change the future of Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

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

But she noted that the United States and its partners in the P-Five-Plus-One group the five permanent U.N.Security Council member countries and Germany are pursuing a two-track strategy of incentives for Iranian nuclear cooperation and "consequences" if it fails to fulfill international nuclear obligations.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

If that argument, if the argument-- If trying to run the Cartesian argument for astronomy fails, yet it seems to be an exactly analogous argument, we ought to conclude that the argument for the distinctness of the mind and the body must fail as well.

如果这个论证,如果把卡氏论证运用到天文学,是失败的,看来我们也不得不承认,类似的那个证明心灵,和身体不同的那个论证,必然也是失败的

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But Israel has warned time and again that if diplomacy fails, it might launch a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28