A failure would shatter the hopes of many people.

一次失败会粉碎很多人的希望。

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Elgar received many honours and much acclaim and yet he often considered himself a failure.

埃尔加获得了很多荣誉和欢呼，但是他常常把自己看成一个失败者。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

The failure to arrive at a common language on many problems is not to be wondered at.

在很多问题上没有共同语言是不足怪的。

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A main concern is that the failure of some banks or governments to pay their debts could send a financial shock across many countries.

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For many years before that,however, he had been considered a failure.

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Gomez explains that many Latino immigrant families see mental illness as a moral failure, a problem to be hidden.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

The school was in many ways a failure, a joke, a sham.

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Although a colossal blunder with grave consequences for many, such a failure is simply not enough to support a claim for securities fraud.

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The effort was routinely praised by way of contrast to Iraq, which many wrote off as a failure until the surge proved them wrong.

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