After the first failure, he acted as a bridge connecting Chinese sports with the rest of the world.

在第一次申奥失败后，他作为中国体育与世界的桥梁，不遗余力地将北京申奥的计划以及取得的成就介绍给国际奥委会的同事们。

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Manhai Bridge is called "jaws of death" by drug traffickers, for they are always doomed to failure here.

曼海大桥被贩毒者称为“鬼门关”，因为他们总是在这里遭到失败。

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Service availability can be lowered by the failure of a Bridge or by a Bridge filtering frames.

服务可用性可能会由于网桥的故障或网桥过滤数据包而降低。

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It might bend and bow, that is it's not the forces of nature like the movement of the river that's knocking the bridge down, but it's just the failure of these materials over time, that they don't last as long as they might.

这桥可能会折断,不一定是洪水这样的自然灾害,导致了桥梁的坍塌,可能只是因为建桥的材料老化,这种材料没有那么持久耐用

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Investigators are using a high tech 3-D video camera to review the scene and attempt to pinpoint where the bridge failure began.

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After all, what is it worth being able to drive across bridges without fear of plunging to certain death? (By my calculations our bridge failure rate is one in three hundred and fifty thousand).

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"Gusset plates have been around a long time, and they've been a reliable feature, and we have no indication that they've ever been part of a suspect bridge problem or a bridge failure before, " Capka said.

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