这是个大进步，考虑到前100次使用其它潜在药物所进行的试验都以完败而告终。
This is a big advance, given that 100 previous trials of other potential drugs had failed completely.
在一场比赛中看起来他们碰杯是板上钉钉的事了，而下一场比赛他们就可能三球完败。
In one game they'll look dead-certs to lift the trophy, in the next they'll be three goals down.
毫无疑问，计算机能在计算方面完败人类，但它们交流和分析他人情绪的能力又如何呢？
Computers can undoubtedly blow humans out of water in math, but how about their ability of communication and interpreting emotions?
◐04年的一项研究显示，超过51%的项目在部分模块上面临失败，15%将遭遇完败。
A 2004 study found that most software projects (51%) will fail in a critical aspect, and 15% will fail totally.
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。
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.
从英格兰去年在温布利球场完败智利到一周前西班牙惨烈出局世界杯，人们还没感受到连续的球技。
It was certainly hard not to watch Chile outplay England at Wembley last year - and then so brilliantly dispatch Spain earlier this week - and not sense an inherent technical superiority.
虽然并不是完败，但操作系统开始成为胜者为王的战役，一个数量众多应用的平台会更容易被接受，而这会带来更多的应用。
Though all is not lost, operating systems tend to be winner-takes-just-about-all battles: a critical mass of applications for a particular platform leads to wider adoption, which leads to-more apps.
虽然并不是完败，但操作系统开始成为胜者为王的战役，一个数量众多应用的平台会更容易被接受，而这会带来更多的应用。
Though all is not lost, operating systems tend to be winner-takes-just-about-all battles: a critical mass of applications for a particular platform leads to wider adoption, which leads to-more apps.
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