He ascribed his failure to bad luck.

他认为自己的失败是运气不好。

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He was imprisoned for failure to pay child support.

他因未曾支付子女抚养费被判入狱。

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Their failure to act is indicative of their lack of interest.

他们未采取行动，这表示他们没有兴趣。

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What happens is your immune response goes haywire and then your body starts to attack itself, so theres a failure to shutdown.

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There's sort of a period around the age of four, four and a half, where kids make the transition from failure to success.

儿童在大约四岁四岁半时,会发生从失败向成功的转变

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It may be a kind of failure to conduct the logic.

或许有着某种不合理性和错误。

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Firstly, he appears authentically angry at the failure to proceed with the Longannet carbon capture scheme.

BBC: Alex Salmond keeps the faith

Sir Salman's failure to speak at the festival, many would argue, is India's collective failure.

BBC: Worrying victory for India's extremes

Others see Ghana's failure to qualify for the Nations Cup as a wake-up call.

BBC: Ghana bitter in defeat