She spent the next four years documenting the events and the world's failure the intervene.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

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

it's about two pounds above organ failure.

是比让器官衰竭的程度再多两磅。

如果想去俱乐部 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And one day after Lehman's failure, the government decided that the huge insurer A.I.G.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

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

President Obama says he wants to avoid a repeat of last year's failure of several banks and other financial firms, which devastated the U.S.economy.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

It's about getting rid of limitations, of barriers, whether it's the fear of failure, something that we didn't have as kids.

也就是摆脱限制，阻碍，或者对失败的恐惧，这些东西在并不是与生俱来的。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

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

Because it says, your program will still give you a value, but it may not be what you intended, and you can't always tell, and that may propagate it's way down through a whole bunch of other computations before it causes some catastrophic failure.

因为这意味着，你的程序依然会返回一个值，但是这个值可能不是你想要的，你可能还分辨不出来，而且这种情况会传播,结果会沿着正果计算过程传播下去,直到产生一个灾难性的错误。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Radovan Karadzic's failure to show up angered both judges and prosecutors.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

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

Venezuelan President Chavez threatened to refuse to sign the declaration to protest Cuba's absence from the hemispheric gathering, and to protest the document's failure - as it is now reportedly written - to demand an end to the U.S.embargo of the island.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

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

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

While the Whigs made bitter speeches about the failure of the party's legislative program, Tyler worked to improve relations with Britain.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

should we conclude therefore, given that we've got the premise, "If you can't picture it or imagine it, then you can't believe in it," since I've just said, look, you can't imagine being dead, but that's not due to any failure of imagination, that's because there's nothing there to imagine or picture.

于是我们就应该基于这个前提，想象不了的东西就不能相信，得出结论吗“,我刚才已经说过，人不能想象自己的死亡，不是因为想象的失败，而是本来就没有东西可以想象。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

You'll want to think about why Milton seems so aggressively to invite the association of the failure of the just revolution of the Puritans, and of course that's how he would see it, with the failure of the unjust revolution of the rebel angels under the guidance of Satan.

弥尔顿如此迫切的将清教徒的正义革命之失败,与我们所认为的撒旦领导下的叛乱天使们的，非正义革命之失败联系在一起,我们会疑惑他为什么要这样做。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Autoimmune diseases result from a failure of the body's own defenses against disease.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

Many have said that the Obama presidency will be defined s success or failure in Afghanistan.

很多人都说奥巴马政权的稳定取决于,在美国在阿富汗的成功与否，by，America’

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Bourke-White's first pictures inside the steel factory in Cleveland were a failure.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

Boards always want to keep their price of a share up because if it starts to decline, the company could become a takeover target; it's viewed as a failure etc., etc.

董事们想将股价维持在高水准上,因为股价一旦下滑,公司很可能会成为收购目标,被人看做是决策失误等等

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The U.S.Food and Drug Administration has not yet approved the device to be used for heart failure patients.

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

But the failure of the talks has also hurt the Taliban's image among the Pakistani public.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

President Barack Obama described the incident as a "systemic failure" of America's security apparatus, and U.S.officials have pledged to do what it takes to prevent a recurrence.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

Italy's foreign minister recently called the U.S.leadership in the crisis a "pathetic" failure.

VOA: standard.2010.01.26

Under questioning, spokesman Wood said the ensuing North Korean retaliation was not a failure of U.S.diplomacy, but a failure by Pyongyang to live up to its international obligations.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

But it said that given the Sri Lankan government's complete failure thus far to investigate possible war crimes, the only hope for justice would be an independent, international investigation.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

"Every year we list more and more people for a kidney transplant and that's because more and more people are developing kidney failure, more people are becoming candidates for a transplant."

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

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