Last week, the government lost its case against two managers at Bear Stearns, the first investment bank to fail last year.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

What else I can do, there's no requirement for me to fail anybody.

我还做些其他什么呢，对于我让学生挂科这点没有任何的要求。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But in spite of your best effort, you fail to lose a single kilogram.

但是即便你这么努力，你还是一斤肉都没减下来。

I'm frustrated 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

was too big to fail. The Federal Reserve rescued the American International Group with an eighty-five billion dollar loan.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

The only people who fail 3.091 are those who choose to fail 3.091.

唯一不能通过这门课的人是,他们自己做出这样的选择。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Government rescues of banks considered "too big to fail" angered the public and helped fuel a conservative movement.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

But nobody believes the government when they say that because people say, surely the U.S. Government is not going to allow Fannie and Freddie to fail.

但是没人相信政府表态,因为人们觉得美国政府肯定不会,让房利美和房地美倒闭的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He dug deep into the darkness, hitting the steel so hard that his body began to fail him.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

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

These include businesses that, during the financial crisis, were considered "too big to fail."

VOA: special.2010.07.23

Typically--I don't know for those particular children, but typically on those tasks three-year-olds and young four-year-olds tend to fail, and around the age of four or five kids tend to succeed.

我不太了解那些特定儿童的情况,但一般来讲,三岁和刚进入四岁的儿童,通常会在这些任务中失败,而四岁或是五岁左右的儿童则通常会成功

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Another brother,Jason, accuses others of stealing his money and causing his business to fail.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

We don't know what it's like to be dead, because every time we try to imagine it, we fail.

我们不知道死亡是什么样的，因为每次我们想象死亡，都无果而终。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If the kingpin is removed, the business or project is likely to fail.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

So you may take this course ultimately via pass-fail or letter grade and I am more than happy to chat with you about the implications and to sign any paper work such as the stack here that you might need.

你可能希望这门课采用及格-不及格分制或者分数制,我很乐意跟你聊下,两个打分制各自的含义,也可以帮你在这里签到。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And the company began to fail. He was dismissed by the owners.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

So if your word game doesn't work when the words are 12 letters long, instead of continuing to debug 12 letter hands see if you can make it fail on a three letter hand.

因此如果你的单词游戏当输入单词,有12个字母的时候没法运行了，看看输入三个字母的单词它,能不能正常运行吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He said it was clear that McClellan wanted Pope to fail.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Again, misleading-- fail to understand it because we don't understand the nature of exponential change.

再一次，误导…,没有理解指数函数，因为我们不理解,指数变化的本质。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

This caused smaller companies in that area to fail.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

He wrote his son in 1704, he said, "I may die tomorrow, but be sure that you have little pleasure if you fail to follow my example.

他在一七零四年写给他的儿子信中说到,"我可能明天就死了,而如果你不能遵循我的的脚步,你是不会快乐的的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

His physical and mental health began to fail.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

I would say that in Biomedical Engineering, largely, we're still at the stage where we're trying to understand how things work and how they fail, and what materials are the right ones.

我要说的是,生物医学工程很大程度上,仍旧停留在试图探索产品的工作原理,以及寻找产品存在缺陷的原因,和选择正确材料的阶段

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"You are doing the right thing because the American people understand that too big to fail is the right size to regulate,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

He doesn't at first hear the horn fail to blow, and then later, when a truck pulls up behind him, he fails to hear a horn that does blow: He was looking at the sign, and he didn't hear the horn.

在一开始,是他没有注意到这点，到后来卡车停在身后时，他连响的喇叭都听不到了：,“他看着那个标牌，以至于没听到喇叭声。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

To avert an economic collapse, the administration moved forward with a controversial plan to bail out banks deemed too big to fail.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

And the commune, despite the fact that there's lots of-- you could hear in the distance the guns sometimes getting closer and closer, and attempts to break out fail miserably, they pass all sorts of impressive social legislation.

在公社里,尽管有很多...,公社不远处不时能听到枪声,不断逼近,而突围的尝试又屡次惨败,他们还通过了各式法律法规

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

"Never again will the American taxpayer be held hostage by a bank that is too big to fail,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

Banks are in trouble and as you know - they're starting to fail because they the value of their assets in the market is falling rapidly.

银行陷入危机，并且你知道,他们开始破产因为他们,市场中资产的价值,在迅速的降低。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

If you fail to take the test, you get zero, and I average the zero in.

如果你没能参加，那即是零分，我算平均分的时候会加入那个零分。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选