At sixty degrees below zero, a man with wet feet must not fail in his first attempt to build a fire.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

But again, the disaster is to fail to coordinate and go to see different movies.

如果协调失败两人各看各的,就也是个悲剧了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

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

The central bank would work with a proposed Financial Services Oversight Council to decide which companies are too big to fail.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

They are borrowers that are thought, by the various models, to be likely to fail to pay on their mortgage and to have to be foreclosed; often low income, but also they're people with poor credit histories.

通过一些模型的计算,这些借款人,很有可能无法偿付贷款,抵押房产会被贷款人收回,借款人通常属于低收入人群,而且这些人没有很好的信用记录

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

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

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

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

But even if those efforts fail, it is too soon to know just how strong the new rules will be.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

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

Such needle sticks are common. But a recent study found that medical students often fail to report them.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

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

And the crisis had to be solved. "If we fail," Roosevelt said, "the cause of self-government throughout the world will suffer greatly."

VOA: special.2010.08.26

Should you fail to stop killing those babies, I think you should be punished for killing babies."

如果你不停止杀婴儿，你就会因为杀婴儿受到惩罚”

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.04.16

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

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

VOA: special.2009.02.21

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

The aim is to find a way to let big financial companies fail without harming the economy.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

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

For every one hundred graduates of for-profit colleges, eighteen fail to repay their federal student loans.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

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

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

VOA: special.2010.07.23

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

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

VOA: special.2010.01.10

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

Alzheimer's is considered if the tests fail to show the existence of other problems.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

Then if you fail to pay on the mortgage--pay off the debt -the lender can seize the property and sell it.

然而如果你无法偿还贷款,贷方可以没收这项财产并出售

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

That means that if you fail to pay on the loan, the property is taken by the lender to satisfy your debts.

这意味着如果你不能偿付贷款,这项资产会归债权人所有以清偿你的债务

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选