But, if that was true, why did some of the fossils look like "mistakes" which had failed to change and, for that reason, died out?

可果真如此，为什么有的化石看起来像是上帝的“失误”？它们未能适应变化，也因此而绝迹了。

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After a row last year with carmakers, which had failed to meet voluntary emissions targets, the European Commission is about to force them to limit the carbon intensity of their fleets.

去年和汽车制造商争吵了一通而没有达成自愿减排目标后，欧洲委员会即将迫使汽车制造商限制他们生产的汽车二氧化碳的排放强度。

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Rio instead raised cash to pay down hefty debts with a rights issue and also announced an iron ore tie-up with BHP (which itself had tried, and failed, to acquire Rio in 2008).

力拓却通过增股的方式，用现金偿还巨额债务，同时公布与必和必拓组成铁矿石联盟(必和必拓曾经试图这样做，但失败了，2008年力拓反过来找必和必拓，后者欣然接受)。

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It was the only bomb which had failed to explode.

BBC: Stanley Ross remembers the Blitz

Slowly, seat-by-seat, the Lib Dems built up enough support from an electorate looking for an alternative to a Labour administration which had failed to overcome industrial and economic blight but was unable to bring itself to vote Conservative.

BBC: Vote 2011: Lib Dem gloom in Clegg's Sheffield powerbase

Other companies had to adhere to the same standards which Quinn had failed to meet, he added.

BBC: Quinn treatment 'not heavy-handed' says watchdog