Failure to put senators on the negotiating team,they say, cost him valuable support later on.

VOA: special.2010.11.04

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

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

But no such mechanism exists for non-bank financial institutions like AIG whose failure would inflict great economic pain on the nation as a whole.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

With the abhorred shears she cruelly punishes the virgin poet for his failure on the one hand to use the sexual body that God has endowed him with, but you also have the image here of the poet's death.

她用剪刀残忍了惩罚了未失童真的诗人,一方面因为他没能利用上帝赋予他的,性的肉体，但这里也有诗人死亡的形象。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"The American taxpayers provided billions of dollars,and ultimately, the auto dealers are on the frontlines with the harsh consequences of the failure at the top,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

He argued that in 586, with the destruction of Jerusalem and the people were taken into exile in Babylon, that was when, in Babylon, the priests were able to assume control, and they were able to play on the exiles' overwhelming feelings of guilt and failure.

他在586年争论，当耶路撒冷被摧毁,人们被驱逐至巴比伦时，就是彼时彼地，牧师们能够实行控制，他们能利用流放者们汹涌的感情,他们的罪恶感和失败感。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It speaks I would say for failure on the part of intelligence agencies."

VOA: standard.2010.01.09

It was scheduled to arrive in Tripoli at 6 o'clock " "We don't know where the communication failure happened, but what we can confirm is that were on board at the time."

VOA: standard.2010.05.12