But last year, increasing gas prices and decreasing sales forced the company to seek billions of dollars in government aid in an attempt to avoid failure.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

This is where evaluation comes in. The success or failure of a poem depends on the realization of meaning.

这时就需要评估介入了，一首诗好与坏,取决于它含义表达是否清晰。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I think it's telling that this kind of creation is a failure; it cannot succeed in the confines of this novel.

我想这告诉我们这种创作是失败的;,它在这本小说的界限内无法成功。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He died of heart failure in nineteen fifty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

And today we'll finish that discussion, and, of course, point out actually the failure of classical mechanics to appropriately describe what's going on in an atom.

结束这部分的讨论，当然的，要指出经典力学,在描述原子内部,情况时是失败的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

He died of heart failure in nineteen ten.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

This was motivated by a spectacular failure of a brokerage, Goodbody & Co., in 1970.

一家证券经纪行的倒闭改变了这一状况,古德巴迪公司,于1970年倒闭

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

and NATO forces in Afghanistan recently warned of mission failure unless more troops and resources are devoted to the effort.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

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

Heart failure is caused by high blood pressure or coronary artery disease, a narrowing of the arteries in the heart.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

But in fact, in his own way, he's talking about his inability ; to keep his child alive there; in a kind of metaphorical way, speaking of his failure to build a fence to last.

但事实上，以他自己的方式，他在诉说自己的无能,不能让孩子活下来;,以一种象征性的方式，谈论自己不能制作出一个一直在那的栅栏。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But it found a significant increase in the risk of heart failure where the heart cannot pump enough blood to the organs or muscles.

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

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

In a statement,the State Department said the decision was made in recognition of the de facto regime's failure to restore democratic, constitutional rule to Honduras.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

The failure of the assumptions in many different industries can create systemic effects.

这些假定的失败,在很多行业都能产生系统性作用

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"In a real sense,we had 700 days of failure and one day of success,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

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

Sudden heart failure occurs in approximately one out of 100,000 students each year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

That is, ultimately they are human beings like anyone else and some of their differences in success or failure may have to do with their own interconnections and their own psychology and interpersonal psychology.

即他们跟其他人一样,都是普通的人,他们的成与败,很大程度上归结于他们自身原因,自我心理以及,人际心理

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

However it was the Communists' subsequent failure to secure election of their presidential candidate that prompted a new election in July which brought the pro-western coalition to power.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

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

Failure to maintain tight control of glucose levels - by measuring blood sugar with a meter and compensating with doses of insulin - can result in serious health complications, including blindness, kidney failure and heart disease.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Mohammad Akhter,Executive Director of the National Medical Association, said reform is needed to deal with an explosion of chronic disease in the United States, adding that failure to pass a bill now would mean more expense for the country later.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

Baily is an author and former adviser in the Clinton administration, says after the failure of Lehman Brothers towards the end of 2008, many of the world's largest banks feared the worst as the collapse of the housing bubble exposed investments in risky subprime loans.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20