The failure of a famous manufacturer like General Motors (GM) would be a severe blow to people’s faith in their own prospects when a lack of confidence is already dragging down the economy.

类似通用汽车这样大的制造商的失败会严重影响人们在其他领域的信心，信心的缺失已在拖累经济下滑。

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There was simply no way around it, so I started to change my attitude towards failure in general.

看起来没有办法避免，所以我开始改变我看待失败的态度。

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In general, your it staff doesn't come to work every morning with high hopes for achieving mediocrity or failure.

每天清晨上班的时候，你的IT员工是满怀着希望而去的，他们一般不会甘于平庸或自甘堕落。

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General McClellan kept making excuses for his failure to act.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa is "deeply disappointed" and says "failure is in the atmosphere" regarding Obama administration efforts to resolve the conflict.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

In a secret assessment published by The Washington Post Monday, General Stanley McChrystal says he needs more forces and,without them, the effort faces possible failure.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

Perhaps the decline of Reader's Digest's fortunes was inevitable with the longer-term social and political influences of 60s counterculture, the failure of general interest magazines, the rise of global media targeted at specific niches and the advent of the internet.

CNN: Rise and fall of Reader's Digest

Mr Reading believes the failure on public sector pay speaks to a general failure to focus on the right things in designing the deficit strategy.

BBC: Hard times for Mr Osborne

But the slogan could stand in, only a little unfairly, for the Democrats' general failure to get their communicative act together, right down to an inability to get their adverbs and subjects to agree.

NPR: 'Talking Right': Why the Left Is Losing, Linguistically