When John tells you he got mad, you're not surprised, because he always gets frustrated when things go wrong.

当约翰告诉你他生气了，你不会感到惊讶，因为他总是在事情出错时感到沮丧。

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Though he acknowledges that engineering works can fail because the person who thought them up or engineered them simply got things wrong, in this book Dr. Petroski widens his view to consider the larger context in which such failures occur.

尽管彼得罗斯基博士承认，由于设计工程项目或实施项目的人会犯错，工程项目可能会失败，但他在这一本书中进一步拓宽了自己的观点，将更多可能导致失败的因素考虑了进来。

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He also got things wrong, of course.

当然，他也出过错。

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So, the Commune begins on the 18th of March, 1871, and it lasts until the end of May, 1871. Lenin once called it the "Festival of the Oppressed"; and Lenin was wrong about many things, he was right about a few things but wrong about many, but he got that one right.

由此,巴黎公社在一八七一年三月十八日成立,并于同年的五月底被政府所瓦解,列宁将这段时间称为"受压迫者的庆典",列宁做错过不少事情,他做对的事情寥寥无几,但对于巴黎公社的评价是正确的

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Following Mr Blair's comments, Mr Miliband said the party was "moving forward" but said the previous Labour government had "got some things wrong" and that he wanted to "assess where it got things wrong, listen to the electorate and sketch out a different vision for the future".

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