It fails to set detailed targets for cuts in carbon emissions.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

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

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I take it that we all agree that when we attempt to run the Cartesian argument in terms of the Morning Star and the Evening Star, it fails. But it's harder to say what went wrong?

我想大家都同意,当我们试图把卡氏论证,用到晨星和昏星的例子上来时,它行不通了,但是很难说我们哪里错了

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

VOA: special.2009.12.11

And dualism simply says, "It's all nonphysical, it's part of the ether," and hence fails to explain it.

二元论只是说,"心灵是无形的,是世界的一部分",因此并不能给出合理的解释

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He said developing an ideology of confidence in condoms is not correct because it fails to focus on personal responsibility.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

Arguably, Freud fails the test because Freudian theory is often so vague and flexible that it can't really be tested in any reliable way.

可以肯定的是，弗洛伊德的理论无法得到验证,因为精神分析理论的内容,太过模糊又太易变通,你无法通过任何可靠的方式,去验证它的正确性。

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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

One of the reasons for thinking it's not clear whether the argument fails or not is because it's hard to pin down, where exactly did it go wrong?

并不能确定这个论证是否成立,的其中一个原因就是,我们很难确定,到底是哪里出了问题

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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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And when the system fails, it is my responsibility." President Obama campaigned on a promise of "change we can believe in."

VOA: special.2010.01.23

He suggests it only when drug therapy fails to work.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

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

It's a virulent strain that occurs when a person with TB fails to complete the six to nine-month course of medication or catches TB from another person who is ill with a drug resistant-strain.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12