Tony Little, the headmaster of Eton, warned that boys were being failed by the British education system because it had become too focused on girls.
伊顿公学(Eton)的校长托尼·利特尔警告称,英国教育体系过于关注培养女孩,导致其正逐渐忽视对男孩的教育。
He was so excited that he could not speak.; he was too excited to speak.; he was so excited that words failed him.
他太兴奋,连话都说不出来了。
Too many companies have failed because they merely whitewashed an existing product and hoped the consumer didn't notice nothing was new.
太多的公司失败因为他们只是粉饰一下现存的产品而希望用户不会注意到实际上没有任何改变。
Make your failed attempts available, too; other people may have a use for a utility you didn't need.
也要使您失败的尝试对其他人可用,也许其他人对某个实用程序具有您所不需要的用途。
It's unlikely that the attackers were sending a message to President Obama, but if they were, they've failed in that too.
这看起来不太像攻击者在给奥巴马信号,但如果这确实是,他们同样是失败的。
“They failed hopelessly, ” one recalled, saying that the machines proved too crude and temperamental to spin properly.
“它们失败得一塌糊涂,”一位专家回忆说。 他评论道,机器确实很粗糙,而且喜怒无常很难转得正常。
The second failure is one of honesty. Too many rich-world politicians have failed to tell voters the scale of the problem.
第二个错误是缺乏诚信,许多发达国家都没有真正告诉人们问题的严重性。
Not everyone agrees: Tony Hayward, his successor, said last year that BP's top brass were too imperious and failed to heed the concerns of the lower ranks.
并不是所有人都赞同之一观点。他的继任者TonyHayward说,BP的高层管理者过于傲慢,没有听取来此底层的意见。
A referendum to authorise renegotiations would have been risky too (Mr Cameron would have been seriously emasculated if the negotiations failed).
就重新谈判进行公投同样有风险(倘若谈判失败,卡梅伦则会陷入窘境)。
Standalone investment Banks have failed and, as Lehman vividly demonstrated, were too central to the architecture of global finance to disappear smoothly.
Standalone投资银行已经失败了,同时,就像雷曼生动地演示的那样,全球金融体系的集中化令危机一时还难以消散。
When IBM's previous attempts at a PC failed to sell, being too expensive, a “skunk works” team of engineers was convened in Boca Raton, Florida.
当IBM在PC上的初次尝试由于价格过高而失败之后,一队工程师组成的“臭鼬小组”(译注1)被召集到佛罗里达州的BocaRaton。
He agreed with other critics that the 1990s stimulus failed because too much of it went to roads and Bridges, overbuilding this already heavily developed nation.
但他对别的批评意见则表示赞同。比如,20世纪90年代的刺激案之所以会失败,是因为刺激款项的很大一部分都花在了大肆建造道路和桥梁,这些自身作为发达国家已经高度成熟的地方。
Men, too, often make hard sacrifices (failed marriages, missing their children grow up) to reach the pinnacles of their careers, especially in our increasingly workaholic and wired culture.
男性也常常要做出痛苦的牺牲(婚姻失败、错过孩子的成长)才能到达职业生涯的顶点,尤其是在我们当前身处的这种职场文化之下--越来越工作狂,同时还要时刻保持与工作“连线”。
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。
But a host of small, narrow Banks blew up too, including Northern Rock, while a big retail bank, HBOS, failed in spectacular fashion.
而在零售银行巨头HBOS(哈里法克斯银行)惊人地倒下的同时,许多小型银行,包括北岩银行也倒下了。
And we are still putting up with too many overruns and failed projects, and with poor-quality software.
并且,我们仍然进行着太多泛滥的失败的项目,以及质量低劣的软件。
The computer models used to project future warming, for example, seem to be too conservative: they failed to predict, among other things, the rapid collapse of summertime Arctic sea ice since 2007.
比如说,用来预测未来暖化的计算机模型似乎太过于保守了:例如,它们没有预测到2007年以来北冰洋夏季时间里冰量的急剧减少。
He discovers too late that load balancing failed; one resource instance that had reached the maximum capacity failed.
他这时才发现负载平衡失效了;有一个达到最大容量的资源实现失效了。
But the needs of the world's poor people are urgent. And services have too often failed them.
但是,全世界贫困人口的需要是紧迫的,而且服务往往没有满足他们的需要。
Yet that, too, failed to drive Australia into recession.
但那也同样没能把澳大利亚拉下水。
He has failed to establish firm priorities, and has all too often let events dictate his agenda.
他没有建立起完善的优先顺序,并且经常让事件主宰他的日程。
Jerry was seven then and she had had to manage him alone, had sometimes failed him, had sometimes been burdened too greatly, but she had always loved him.
杰里当时只有七岁,她不得不独自照顾他,她曾经让杰里失望过,也曾经觉得自己负担过重,但她一直很爱他。
One inference was that, if the Palestinians failed to secure a state, Israelis might forfeit theirs too.
一个推论是,如果巴勒斯坦人不能保卫自己的国家,以色列可能会失去他们的国家。
Failed SOA projects get too focused on the means rather than the end.
失败的SOA项目将过多的关注投在了方法而非目标上。
There were rumors of unfathomable things, and because we could not fathom them we failed to believe them-until we had no choice and it was too late.
那里尽是一些风声鹤唳的谣言,因为我们无法探究真相,我们只好相信了——直到我们被逼无路,一切为时已晚。
In the 1990s, the central bank recognized the benign effect of cheap imports on inflation but failed to adjust interest rates accordingly, leaving them too low.
1990年代,央行认可廉价进口对于通胀带来的积极影响,但维持了过低的利率,没有做出相应调整。
In the 1990s, the central bank recognized the benign effect of cheap imports on inflation but failed to adjust interest rates accordingly, leaving them too low.
1990年代,央行认可廉价进口对于通胀带来的积极影响,但维持了过低的利率,没有做出相应调整。
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