People will assume that he is crude, or anxious to be different at all costs — or a desperate failure.

人们会料定他是个粗俗的人，或者是个不惜代价渴望标新立异的家伙- - -也可能只是个破罐子破摔的失败者而已。

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People will assume that he is crude, arrogant, or anxious to be different at all costs or a desperate failure.

人们会推测他是一个粗鲁、傲慢或是急于不惜任何代价要显得“与众不同”的人——否则就是一个一败涂地的人。

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The "surge" is a desperate response to failure.

“增兵”是对失败的绝望回应。

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"Rather than being a mechanism of cooperation,of joint fact-finding, of assistance to one another, it became another focal point for animosity and a failure,really, to work together to solve the desperate needs of both peoples."

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Can there be a stronger admission of failure than to launch such a desperate Hail Mary?

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