An advertising executive hospitalized for depression shortly after winning an award put it this way: "Without my depression, I'd be a failure now; with it, I'm a success 'on hold'."

一位广告主管在获奖后不久因抑郁症而入院治疗，他说：“没有抑郁症，我现在就是一个失败者；有了抑郁症，我就是一个‘暂缓’的成功者。”

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Shortly after winning an award, an advertising executive doing research on depression said, "Without my depression, I'd be a failure now; with it, I have become successful."

一位研究抑郁症的广告高管在获奖后不久这样说道：“没有抑郁症，我现在就是个失败者；有了它，我就成功了。”

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It'll be a failure.

这会是个失败品。

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"I believe this war to be a tragic failure that continues to undermine rather than advance our national security interests."

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It may be a kind of failure to conduct the logic.

或许有着某种不合理性和错误。

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Does he hold it out as a real possibility ? or must it be considered a failure in some way or that if the dialogue does end in failure ? what can we learn from that?

他是否坚持真有可能性,或那必需被多少视为是一项失败,如果对话以失败结束,我们又能从中学到什么？

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