Children are worried about failing in front of their peers.

儿童都怕在同伴面前失败。

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If you were under pressure to be perfect, you are terrified of failing in the most public of ways.

如果你处在追求完美的压力下，你会害怕在最公开的情况下失败。

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He felt he would be failing in his duty if he did not report it.

他认为他如果不报告就是失职。

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Yet agriculture is failing." Historians give four major reasons why agriculture was failing in the late eighteen eighties.

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This puts the British Government in an embarrassing situation of owning a failing mortgage lender, so they've got to now be the government collecting on all these mortgages; it's a mess.

承认其银行抵押贷款出现严重问题,着实令英国政府颜面扫地,所以现在不得不由政府出面,收购所有这些抵押贷款,真是一团乱

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and aren't stuck in schools that are failing.

而不是被困在无法正常运转的学校内。

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Rodriguez was benched during last season's playoffs and has been ridiculed for repeatedly failing in October.

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"But too often it is failing in terms of how it is delivered, " he added.

BBC: Adjournment debate

Now we have evidence that suggests that QE3 is failing in exactly the same way.

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