Short segments of the road had been observed by earlier explorers, Bown said, but they failed to realize its significance or follow up on their observations.
鲍恩说，早期的探险者已经观测过这条路的一小段，但他们没有意识到它的重要性，也没有继续进行观测。
These clocks were popular in the Middle East and China but they failed to keep accurate time.
这些钟虽然在中东和中国很受欢迎，但它们不能准确计时。
But they failed to produce any detailed new agreements.
但是双方没有就任何具体的细节达成更多新的一致。
But they failed to assess him correctly and missed signs that his brain was still functioning.
但是，他们没有正确地对他做出评估，错过了他的大脑仍然运转的信号。
Yes, these companies are cloud providers, but they failed because they did it so crushingly badly.
没错，这些公司是云供应商，但由于处置不当而失败了。
But they failed to reach consensus on what's going to spur job growth and prevent another global economic meltdown.
但是，在如何刺激工作职位的增加和如何防止下一次全球经济衰退的问题上，各国不能达成共识。
But they failed and paid for what they did before, because more people opposed them and protected natural environment.
最终他们遭到报应年夜略失败了，有更多的人在反对他们，保卫天然环境。
Not only did they actively seek out ideas and creative genius, but they failed many times before reaching their own level of greatness.
他们不仅在积极地寻求想法和创造伟业，在他们成功之前他们还经历了许多次的失败。
When the king of Moab saw that the battle had gone against him, he took with him seven hundred swordsmen to break through to the king of Edom, but they failed.
摩押王见阵势甚大，难以对敌，就率领七百拿刀的兵，要冲过阵去到以东王那里，却是不能。
Parisians reacted aesthetically, as they are wont to do, but they failed to consider the consequences of what it means to be a vital, living city versus a museum city.
巴黎人做出了一种审美反应，他们一直是这样，但他们没有考虑过，要成为一个有生气、有活力的城市，而不是博物馆城市，需要付出怎样的代价。
While, they all have their own defects. Traditional laptop computers have comprehensive functions, but they failed to meet the requirement of the portability of people.
而他们都有各自的缺陷：传统笔记本电脑虽然功能全面，但是携带性开始不能满足现在人们的要求；上网本虽然够轻便，但是略去了很多功能，让人在日常使用时受到很多局限。
We expected great things of the England team, but on the day they simply failed to deliver the goods.
我们本指望英格兰队大获全胜，可那天他们真是有负众望。
They failed many times but didn't give up.
他们失败了很多次，但并没有放弃。
Some people can shrug off their failed relationships, but this doesn't mean they recover faster.
某些人能够对失败的关系一笑置之，但是这并不意味着他们恢复得更快。
Many experiments have failed but they have established businesses in areas such as trains, airlines, books, cola, etc.
许多试验都失败了，但它们已经在火车、航空、出版、可乐等领域做起了生意。
All but one failed to transform their business and all but one were unable to do that because of the large unsustainable burn rates they had built up.
所有业务转型中只有一个是失败的，而这一个失败是由于未能大幅支持他们业已创立的烧钱率。
The original female birth control pill was developed as a fertility treatment, but when it failed, researchers realized they had a potentially effective contraceptive on their hands.
女性避孕药最初用来治疗不育，但失败之后，研究人员却发现他们拥有了一种有潜在避孕效果的药。
Private partnerships were wonderfully flexible but lacked the vital ingredient of limited liability: partners could lose everything they owned if the business failed.
私营合伙企业具有很好的灵活性，但缺乏有限责任的重要元素。也就是说，一旦他们拥有的企业失败，合伙人将一无所有。
There have been several attempts to do this before but they have largely failed for a number of reasons including too much reliance on server-side processing or the fickleness of the browser's cache.
以前有很多种办法实现这个功能，但是由于各种原因，大多数的尝试都失败了，其中包括太多的对服务端处理的依赖，以及浏览器缓存的不稳定性等。
They have known about the potential for conflict of interest for years but failed to probe the industry's behaviour seriously.
他们对于这种违背公众利益的潜在可能已经了解达数年之久，却还没能认真查明这一行业行为。
If the telephone guys had set out to make something that did what the telegraph does, but better, they probably would have failed.
如果发明电话得人是参照电报得特点来设计电话得话，即使做的更好，他也会多半失败。
But unlike their western European counterparts, eastern Asian countries failed to establish mutual trust as they entered the modern age.
不过，同西欧国家不同的是，在进入现代后，东亚国家之间未能建立相互信任。
But as they flew up the coast of Mexico, the engine on the back of the plane failed. Fuel had stopped flowing to it.
但是，当他们飞过墨西哥海岸的时候，后部的引擎熄火了，燃料也不再进入它。
They reunited seven years later, but a recent 19-date Better tour failed to fill stadiums, despite offers of free tickets.
7年后他们再次走到一起，但在最近的一次演出中即使免费送票体育场也没有坐满。
They reunited seven years later, but a recent 19-date Better tour failed to fill stadiums, despite offers of free tickets.
7年后他们再次走到一起，但在最近的一次演出中即使免费送票体育场也没有坐满。
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