This is one of the events, I think, that Yeats is thinking about in "The Fisherman" when he speaks of "great Art beaten down."

这就是叶芝，我想，在《打鱼人》里想法之一“,当他说，伟大的艺术败了“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And they failed utterly time after time after time, and they are way too liberal in providing the kind of accounting the financial promoters want.

然而会计们一次又一次的完败,他们提供金融业推销商们,需要的帐目服务时,过于自由派作风了。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

He's referring to the Tyranny of the Thirty that existed after the Athenian defeat.

他所指的是三十暴君,成立于雅典兵败之后。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And at the age of about fifty-five the war came along, and he wrote a book called Strange Defeat, explaining why in 1940 France fell so rapidly.

在他五十五的时候开始打仗了,然后他写了一本书叫《诡异之败》,解释为什么1940年法国这么快就败了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

They're a hopeless mess. They get everything wrong.

简直糟糕得无可救药，真是成事不足败事有余。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

That is, ultimately they are human beings like anyone else and some of their differences in success or failure may have to do with their own interconnections and their own psychology and interpersonal psychology.

即他们跟其他人一样,都是普通的人,他们的成与败,很大程度上归结于他们自身原因,自我心理以及,人际心理

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Another tangible way of understanding who won the battle and who didn't, is we winners, because we own the field, we can pick up the casualties, take care of those who can be saved, bury the ones who have been killed; we don't have to ask anybody's permission.

还有一种显而易见的,判断谁胜谁败的方法,我们占领了战场,我们就是胜方,我们清理战场,处置死伤者,医治能救活的人,埋葬阵亡的人,我们不需要征求任何人的同意

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选