"So,when an event like this occurs, it is incumbent upon a Democrat to react quickly and decisively, and Obama failed to do it."

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

Frost describes it here, movingly, as, well, an image of a home that is lost, of a home that has failed.

弗罗斯特动情地描述了那栋房子，一个丧失了家的房子的画面，和一个失败的家庭。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

One situation is when you're speaking with a friend who had given you really good advice that you failed to take.

一种情况是，当你正在和一个朋友交谈，他之前曾给你一些很好的建议，但你却没有采纳。

I should have 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The rebel group failed in its violent quest to establishment an ethnic homeland on the island, which is dominated by the mainly Buddhist Sinhalese.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

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

He says America's land-for-peace formula has failed and it is time for a new approach.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

For example Bear Stearns which is a broker-dealer failed recently.

例如贝尔斯登,那个最近倒闭的经纪自营商。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

- 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

repeat that. Mexico is in no danger of becoming a failed state.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

The problem with private banks issuing notes is that there would periodically be banking crises when the banks failed to pay on their notes and they couldn't pay out the gold that was demanded--that was required.

私有银行发行纸币的问题在于,当它们没法用要求的金子-规定的金子数量,支付它们发行的纸币时,它们将周期性的,陷入银行业危机。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

He is replacing Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, whose nine-year rule saw failed power grabs and opposition impeachment bids against her because of allegations of vote-rigging, corruption and rights abuses.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

"Mexico is in no danger of becoming a failed state.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

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

In Arkansas, centrist Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln failed to win a majority of votes in the primary against a left-leaning challenger, and is headed to a June run-off for her party's nomination.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

"There are several problems with this notion of a failed state," "One of them is that somehow in Mexico,all of a sudden, the government has become heavily corrupted by cartels as if there wasn't corruption in the past.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18