She smirked and I could tell she was happy that I had failed.

她嘲弄地笑了笑，我知道她是因为我失败了而感到高兴。

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Report cards are going out this Friday, and I realized I had failed in chemistry.

成绩单这周五就要寄出了，我意识到我的化学没及格。

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So I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale.

基于任何一种传统标准，我可以说，仅仅在我毕业7年后，我经历了一次巨大的失败。

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So the basic idea was fine, but I failed to satisfy the initial condition that the answer had to be between the lower bound and the upper bound. Right?

因此基础的思想是对的，但是程序没能满足,正确答案在给定的区间内这个条件,对不对？

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For a long time, I felt like I had failed because I could not find any way to help him get better.

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"I clearly knew I had to do something and I failed to do it, " he said.

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