He says if we fail, then they are free to continue the drone attacks.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

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

When we don't cultivate ourselves enough, we don't cultivate our relationships enough,that's when we fail.

如果我们不注重培养自己的能力，不注重培养自己的人际关系，就会失败。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"The United States does Israel no favors when we fail to couple an unwavering commitment to its security with an insistence that Israel respect the legitimate claims and rights of the Palestinians,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

And if we fail, they will denounce us.

如果我们失败了，会遭到谴责。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

If a large financial institution should ever fail, we will have the tools to wind it down without endangering the larger economy."

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

So you pick a better material like iron and steel, that makes a better bridge, we know that now because we have experience with bridges, but still your bridge might fail.

你选择了钢铁作为材料,来造了一座更好的桥,我们现在能够明晰这一点,是因为在造桥这件事上我们现在很有经验,但即使是我们现在造的桥也仍然会倒塌

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"We could succeed in Afghanistan and if the Pakistani government does not put its own house in order they could fail in their counter-insurgency anyway,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

We tend to fail to discount the situation.

我们往往没有考虑到实际情况。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"We cannot fail to assist Sudan during her hour of need."

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

A lot of us might feel that a life like this, where we peak but then we stick around-- ... you know, isn't-- can at least fail to be as desirable in which we end with a bang.

很多人可能觉得生命是这样的，我们先到达巅峰然后下跌-,不是-,它无法令人满意地,让我们突然死去。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"We cannot let Mexico fail."

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

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

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

If that argument, if the argument-- If trying to run the Cartesian argument for astronomy fails, yet it seems to be an exactly analogous argument, we ought to conclude that the argument for the distinctness of the mind and the body must fail as well.

如果这个论证,如果把卡氏论证运用到天文学,是失败的,看来我们也不得不承认,类似的那个证明心灵,和身体不同的那个论证,必然也是失败的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He tried to intimidate us too much with his promise of impossible grading so that everyone took the class credit/D/fail, when we all probably ended up with As or Bs.

他经常试着吓唬我们,通过他承诺的不可能的分数等级,所以每个人都虔诚的来上课/D/不及格，当我们几乎都已As或Bs结束时。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选