Things just didn't work out as planned.

事情没有像计划的那样进展顺利。

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My first job didn't work out.

我的第一份工作干得不好。

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The guidance systems didn't work and the missile couldn't hit its target.

制导系统失灵了，所以导弹没能命中目标。

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"It's not going to be the old policy as usual, first of all because old policies didn't work,".

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Who was also one of the word's first programmers. So she was trying to write this program, and it didn't work.

也是世界上最早的几个程序员之一,她正尝试着完成一个,复杂的求反正切的程序。

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but unfortunately the days when I could go were never available. It didn't work out.

但可惜的是，我没时间去。没能实现这个心愿。

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The government said those targets "didn't work" and its changes were simplifying the planning system.

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"It took ten years to figure out these didn't work very well, " he says.

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If he didn't work out well for us we wouldn't be fooling around with this.

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