What happens is your immune response goes haywire and then your body starts to attack itself, so theres a failure to shutdown.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

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 told them: "The war for the Union is, in your hands, a most bloody and costly failure.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

To some extent, the subprime crisis is a failure of Basel II, which is not even fully born yet.

从某种程度上讲,次贷危机就是新巴塞尔协议的一次失败,该协议甚至还没有正式生效

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

When there is crop failure because of a drought or flood, farmers receive a text message.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

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

A main concern is that the failure of some banks or governments to pay their debts could send a financial shock across many countries.

VOA: special.2009.03.06

We pointed out, that this is not just a failure of communication.

需要指出,这不仅仅是沟通失败

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

She writes that academic cheating is a result of communication failure between students and professors.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

Now it's different in important ways because it's really focused at preventing the collapse of the economy that is created by a financial system failure.

现在，这个不同有很重要的意义,因为它真正专注于,阻止被金融系统的失败而引发的,经济的崩溃。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"Now I say to you gentlemen that this college is a failure.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

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

Senator Joe Lieberman is chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee: "By any measure, SBInet has been a failure."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

What they're really doing is just we're facing this seize up of our financial system so we have banks that we've just seen the failure of Bear Stearns which is actually a broker-dealer.

他们真正在做的只是,我们正处于金融体系失灵的阶段,所以我们有这种银行,我们刚刚目睹了经纪自营商,贝尔斯登的失败。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

So, it really is -it really ought to be on the bank's balance sheet and it ought to be regulated by the bank regulators, but there was a failure to do that and that is the problem that we are in currently.

所以说,它确实该...,它应该反映在银行的资产负债表上,同时接受银行监管体系的管理,但这却没能实现,这就是我们目前面临的问题

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

A new device, no bigger than a paper clip, could revolutionize the way heart failure is managed.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

The continued interest in the mission, and the Apollo program in general, is no surprise to Jim Lovell, the man who helped make Apollo 13 a "successful failure."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

"It is very important," "I think the failure to pass health-care legislation this year will be a tremendous setback for the administration and for the leadership in Congress."

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

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