With over 600 billion dollars in debt, Lehman's failure was the largest bankruptcy in United States history.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

So if you want to invent, if you want to innovate, failure is part and parcel with that.

所以如果想要发明，想要创造，失败是不可或缺的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

With the abhorred shears she cruelly punishes the virgin poet for his failure on the one hand to use the sexual body that God has endowed him with, but you also have the image here of the poet's death.

她用剪刀残忍了惩罚了未失童真的诗人,一方面因为他没能利用上帝赋予他的,性的肉体，但这里也有诗人死亡的形象。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

People with malaria may suffer kidney failure or loss of red blood cells.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

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

People with heart failure tend to gain weight because fluids build up when the heart can't pump enough blood.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

You'll want to think about why Milton seems so aggressively to invite the association of the failure of the just revolution of the Puritans, and of course that's how he would see it, with the failure of the unjust revolution of the rebel angels under the guidance of Satan.

弥尔顿如此迫切的将清教徒的正义革命之失败,与我们所认为的撒旦领导下的叛乱天使们的，非正义革命之失败联系在一起,我们会疑惑他为什么要这样做。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"Its failure could have resulted in a 1930s-style global financial and economic meltdown, with catastrophic implications for production, income and jobs,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Nye agrees with Mr.Klaus that the primary causes of the Soviet collapse were economic failure and the decline of communist ideology.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Mr.Obama accused Republicans of playing politics with the issue, after at least one opposition senator said failure to pass health reform could "break" the president.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

"The American taxpayers provided billions of dollars,and ultimately, the auto dealers are on the frontlines with the harsh consequences of the failure at the top,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

The UN Human Rights Council was set to condemn Israel for its failure to cooperate with the fact finding mission headed by South African Justice, Richard Goldstone.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

Failure to maintain tight control of glucose levels - by measuring blood sugar with a meter and compensating with doses of insulin - can result in serious health complications, including blindness, kidney failure and heart disease.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Mohammad Akhter,Executive Director of the National Medical Association, said reform is needed to deal with an explosion of chronic disease in the United States, adding that failure to pass a bill now would mean more expense for the country later.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

Republicans also link potential costs with what they say is the failure so far of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act the $787 billion stimulus plan approved by Congress to speed up economic recovery, an assertion the president and Democrats reject.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

"When our government has information on a known extremist and that information is not shared and acted upon as it should have been and this extremist boards a plane with dangerous explosives that could cost nearly 300 lives, a systemic failure has occurred.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

"It was a failure with regards to its initial mission, a success to the triumph of the people that suddenly were thrust upon a problem that they never anticipated, they never planned for, they never trained for, and were able to pull off successfully a successful recovery."

VOA: standard.2010.04.04