The main character is a journalist in flight from a failed marriage.

主角是一个逃避失败婚姻的记者。

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But the country has been split in half since a failed overthrow in two thousand two led to armed conflict.

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Now never mind that our own experience with virgins has failed to afford us such a spectacle of bodily transformation.

没有关系，如果我们关于贞操的知识,之前未能告诉我们如此壮观的身体转换。

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Frost describes it here, movingly, as, well, an image of a home that is lost, of a home that has failed.

弗罗斯特动情地描述了那栋房子，一个丧失了家的房子的画面，和一个失败的家庭。

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Whitman joined the board in January after she a failed race to be governor of California.

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New York had a failed 5-on-3 advantage that lasted 44 seconds in the first period.

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The central character, Babylen Tatarsky, is a failed poet working as a sales assistant.

ECONOMIST: Russian satire