About 5 percent of students in the language program flunk out before their freshman year.

参加英语语言课程大约5%的学生会在上大一之前退学。

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Boys in the developed world are 50% more likely to flunk basic maths, reading and science entirely.

发达国家的男孩在基础数学、阅读和自然科学上的整体挂科率比女孩高50%。

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If you just loaf around in college, you will flunk out.

如果你在大学里无所事事，你会被踢出去。

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Any business school would flunk you in a minute for spending money on custom screws.

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Politicians, preachers, lawyers, bureaucrats and, one suspects, journalist-novelists like himself, also flunk his test of masculinity by engaging in namby-pamby occupations.

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In the event, for all the nastiness, buck-passing and back-biting this mass of material exposes, it only reinforces Mr Pollard's conclusions: that the BBC's lines of accountability were deeply flawed and that members of its lavishly paid and top-heavy management saw it as their priority, in a crisis, to flunk responsibility rather than take it.

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