If the telephone guys had set out to make something that did what the telegraph does, but better, they probably would have failed.

如果发明电话得人是参照电报得特点来设计电话得话，即使做的更好，他也会多半失败。

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Having been through one failed marriage myself, I understand my father better now.

在经历了一场失败婚姻后，我现在对父亲有了更多的了解。

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What these things have in common is that they have all failed a very simple test: Will this make my life better?

这些“小玩意”的相同之处——都没通过这个简单的测试：“这东西会使我的生活更好吗？”

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But when Lana Kuykendall failed to feel better by Thursday, she checked out of the Atlanta hospital and traveled back to Greenville.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

In SEAS, Vytorin failed to do better than placebo at treating a heart valve disease called aortic stenosis, but it did reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes and operations to unclog arteries.

FORBES: Efficacy Questions Still Dog Vytorin

In ENHANCE, Vytorin, a combo pill of Schering-Plough's Zetia and Merck's now-generic Zocor, failed to do better than Zocor alone in preventing atherosclerosis, leading to the sales decline and big drops in the stock prices of both companies.

FORBES: The Vytorin Stretch