Failure in a place like Afghanistan would have international reverberations.

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And you know the answer is yes because I wouldn't set myself up for failure like this, would I?

你知道答案是，是,因为我不会为了这个而承担失败的风险，为什么我不会呢？

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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

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It might bend and bow, that is it's not the forces of nature like the movement of the river that's knocking the bridge down, but it's just the failure of these materials over time, that they don't last as long as they might.

这桥可能会折断,不一定是洪水这样的自然灾害,导致了桥梁的坍塌,可能只是因为建桥的材料老化,这种材料没有那么持久耐用

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