This was clearly a failure by someone who thought he was above failure.

这显然是一个自以为不会失败的人所经历的一次失败。

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Can we minimize failure by mapping predict all that a user might ever want?

我们能通过预测所有用户可能的需求而把失败最小化吗？

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Under questioning, spokesman Wood said the ensuing North Korean retaliation was not a failure of U.S.diplomacy, but a failure by Pyongyang to live up to its international obligations.

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This was motivated by a spectacular failure of a brokerage, Goodbody & Co., in 1970.

一家证券经纪行的倒闭改变了这一状况,古德巴迪公司,于1970年倒闭

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Now it's different in important ways because it's really focused at preventing the collapse of the economy that is created by a financial system failure.

现在，这个不同有很重要的意义,因为它真正专注于,阻止被金融系统的失败而引发的,经济的崩溃。

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Opposition parties said the review was an admission of failure by the Labour minister.

BBC: Make education bosses more accountable, says minister

Collective failure by officers and their supervisors in Ashbourne Division meant no meaningful investigation took place.

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Don't set yourself up for failure by starting each day with an unrealistically long agenda.

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