“成功就是成功，但也仅此而已。”佩特罗斯基博士写道。
"Success is success but that is all that it is," Dr. Petroski writes.
它的作者亨利·佩卓斯基博士，长期以来一直在写关于灾难的文章。
Its author, Dr. Henry Petroski, has long been writing about disasters.
尽管彼得罗斯基博士承认，由于设计工程项目或实施项目的人会犯错，工程项目可能会失败，但他在这一本书中进一步拓宽了自己的观点，将更多可能导致失败的因素考虑了进来。
Though he acknowledges that engineering works can fail because the person who thought them up or engineered them simply got things wrong, in this book Dr. Petroski widens his view to consider the larger context in which such failures occur.
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