Their attempts to clean up politics and smash the power of party machines failed.

他们整治政治和搞垮党派组织权力的企图失败了。

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“They failed hopelessly, ” one recalled, saying that the machines proved too crude and temperamental to spin properly.

“它们失败得一塌糊涂，”一位专家回忆说。 他评论道，机器确实很粗糙，而且喜怒无常很难转得正常。

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A day after the levees broke, the generators in the hospital failed, knocking out ventilators, transfusion machines and fresh water supplies. Nineteen patients died.

在决堤的第二天，这家医院的发电机无法发电，通风机和输液机停止了运转，供水中断，19位病人死去。

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IBM, by the way, was the official name shortened by International Business Machines, after being international stopped being a big deal and machines failed to cover software and services.

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The radio-controlled machines they used often failed to carry out commands or did the opposite of what they were supposed to do, because their electronics were disrupted by the high radiation.

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Capitalizing on the popular mania for sustainable energy, the penny-stock operators are converting failed Canadian mining outfits and Internet firms into green machines with names like Western Wind Energy and Hydrogen Power International.

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