让她去通知失败的人，真不是什么好差事。

She was given the unenviable task of informing the losers.

《牛津词典》

这显然是一个自以为不会失败的人所经历的一次失败。

This was clearly a failure by someone who thought he was above failure.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

我们不应该嘲笑那些失败的人。

We're not supposed to laugh those who failed.

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The person in the middle if they enter here loses, so they're not going to want to enter.

中间的那个人,如果他们参选将会失败,所以他们不会想去参选

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So if anybody on either side of them runs, that person would simply lose.

任意一个在两边的人要参选,都会以失败告终

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There is also the constant, creative tension around experimentation and making sure everyone in the organization feels it's better to experiment, fail and then move on and experiment again than to not do that.

而且，在技术试验上，他总会持续迸发出创造性的火花,在这之前，马克会去确认,团队里的每一个人是否同意试验，如果第一次失败，我们会继续,而不是停止试验。

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