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Their recent attempt to increase sales has been a dismal failure.

他们最近努力想提高销售量，全是白费劲。

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Sterling has been hit by the economy's failure to pull out of recession.

由于经济没能摆脱衰退，英镑遭受了重创。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

"My sister has been in renal failure for months now." "You're supposed to give her a kidney?"

VOA: special.2009.06.12

Senator Joe Lieberman is chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee: "By any measure, SBInet has been a failure."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says there has been a systemic failure in giving tribal communities in remote areas a stake in economic development.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Without huge government subsidies, vertical separation has been a failure everywhere it has been tried.

ECONOMIST: Language barriers

Where we have gone wrong in the past, it seems to me, Jeremy, is that it is not just a question of underinvestment and there has been that. it has been a failure to listen.

BBC: News Online

We now have to reassess our defence spending, which has been cut back too far: Still more significant has been the failure to grasp the vital importance of investment in the very latest defence technology.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: 'Courage'