Daniel tries for some time but he fails.

丹尼尔试了几次但是失败了。

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If he fails, some voters may hold it against him.

如果失败，恐怕会因此遭到一些选民的排斥。

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No man ever fails until he fails on the inside.

没有人失败，直到他内心失败。

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But often he fails. The expression was born in the military forces.

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I think we're meant to understand that he is so focused on the question of redemption that he fails to see anything else; he fails to see anyone else in his preoccupation with that problem.

我想我们得知道,他正被救赎的问题所困扰,在他被次纠缠时,他看不到任何事;,也看不到任何人。

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He doesn't at first hear the horn fail to blow, and then later, when a truck pulls up behind him, he fails to hear a horn that does blow: He was looking at the sign, and he didn't hear the horn.

在一开始,是他没有注意到这点，到后来卡车停在身后时，他连响的喇叭都听不到了：,“他看着那个标牌，以至于没听到喇叭声。

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If he fails, the reformers may coalesce behind Cardinal Timothy Dolan from New York.

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One of great opportunity and, if he fails to rise to the occasion, of great peril.

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If he fails, he will have done so having exposed deep fissures in the Republican party.

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