Some manage it. Some fail miserably.

有人成功了。有些人败得很惨。

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He flew with them through night and cloud and storm, for the sport of it, while the flock huddled miserably on the ground.

他与他们一道飞行，穿越黑夜、云层和暴风雨，就像做游戏一样，而这时，鸟群却可怜地在地上挤作一堆。

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When I first tried it I failed miserably.

当我第一次尝试的时候非常不幸失败了。

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I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won't bother to talk about except that it had something to do with the miserably weary splitting up and my feeling that everything was dead.

我刚熬过一场重大疾病，具体就不说了,只是这与我和妻子不幸的分离有些关系,我感觉万物都没有了生机。

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I mean it wasn't terrible, it was sort of a precursor to what people are trying to do It flopped miserably, but I'm glad we did it.

其实也没那么糟糕，它就是个先兆，预示了现今人们,很悲惨它失败了，不过我很高兴我们做过。

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If the government hoped it would keep the real at its unofficial resistance tolerance of BRL1.65 by the latest 6%financial transactions tax of March 29, it failed miserably at it.

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The stated reason for QE-2 was to lower long term interest rates but it failed miserably.

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When it was finally called upon, it failed miserably in the Balkans.

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