失败的代价太大，人类无法承受。

The cost of failure would simply be too great.

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失败的代价是巨大的。

The costs of this failure are massive.

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这些危机意味着失败的代价正在变得越来越高。

These crises mean that the price of failure just keeps getting higher.

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If that's not a novelist's description of what a lost cause is I've never read one.

这就是一个小说家所描述的失败的代价,我从未读到过更贴切的说法了

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What's distinctive about the South: "The South has a tradition," Said Gurganus, "Of attempting the impossible at great cost, proudly celebrating the failure, and in gaining admiration for the performance."

写的是南方的独特之处,"南方有种传统",古尔加努斯说,"付出巨大的代价挑战命运,即便失败仍非常自豪,并因此而为他人所尊敬"

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