It is a story of sadness and loss, of the failure of an old Southern family to which the brothers belong.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

This is...isn't this an example of kind of thing that... ? a socialist would refer to as market failure?

莫非这正好验证了。,社会主义者关于资本主义市场失效的理论？

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

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

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

There's sort of a period around the age of four, four and a half, where kids make the transition from failure to success.

儿童在大约四岁四岁半时,会发生从失败向成功的转变

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"My sister has been in renal failure for months now." "You're supposed to give her a kidney?"

VOA: special.2009.06.12

So think about, I don't want to push this too hard but think about other games where people are communicating to fail, to avoid a failure of coordination.

我不想把问题说得太严重,我们不妨举一些沟通失败的博弈案例,或者说努力避免沟通失败

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

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

It may be a kind of failure to conduct the logic.

或许有着某种不合理性和错误。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"Rather than a failure to collect or share intelligence," he said, "this was a failure to connect and understand the intelligence that we already had."

VOA: special.2010.01.09

But in fact, in his own way, he's talking about his inability ; to keep his child alive there; in a kind of metaphorical way, speaking of his failure to build a fence to last.

但事实上，以他自己的方式，他在诉说自己的无能,不能让孩子活下来;,以一种象征性的方式，谈论自己不能制作出一个一直在那的栅栏。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.07.19

That was to protect depositors in the case of bank failure and it was a very important innovation because, at that time, there were huge runs on banks.

以保护储户在银行破产中免受损失,该机构的成立是个创举,因为那段时期,银行遭到挤兑

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"I believe this war to be a tragic failure that continues to undermine rather than advance our national security interests."

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

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

He says he wants to ensure that the failure of a single, large financial firm would not threaten the entire economy.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

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

Gomez explains that many Latino immigrant families see mental illness as a moral failure, a problem to be hidden.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

heart attacks,strokes,heart failure increases probably five to ten times greater than it does over just a few hours of exposure."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Failure to hold the vote by the end of January, a deadline set by the constitution, threatened the creation of a political void.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

McChrystal described a situation in which the Taliban and related groups are advancing, and said he needs more resources to avoid mission failure.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

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

"If there was a failure to take appropriate action before the shootings, there must be accountability.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

But it found a significant increase in the risk of heart failure where the heart cannot pump enough blood to the organs or muscles.

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

"The failure to devise a clear, Mr.Secretary,and credible plan for employing TARP, has also resulted in a massive waste, some people believe,of taxpayer dollars,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

And at that point,we believe there should be consequences for a failure to respond."

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

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

However it was the Communists' subsequent failure to secure election of their presidential candidate that prompted a new election in July which brought the pro-western coalition to power.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

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