There's no failure then is there?

那么就不会有失败，不是吗？

youdao

You only fail if you don't get to where you wanted to go - but if you don't have a destination in mind, there's no failure.

只有未能到达所期望的地方才算失败——但如果你心里根本没有一个目的地，就不存在失败。

youdao

Because the active standby machine is still used for user transactions and query, even if no failure occurs, it must be fully licensed.

因为active备用机器仍被用于处理用户事务和查询，即使没有故障出现，它也必须是被完全许可的。

youdao

But no such mechanism exists for non-bank financial institutions like AIG whose failure would inflict great economic pain on the nation as a whole.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

It's the classic single-point failure with no back-up.

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Too bad there's no price for failure--except, of course, for the one paid by veteran entrepreneurs.

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Nonsense, nonsense. (Brown laughs) Can I turn to another big area, which you mentioned yourself, which is Copenhagen, briefly, because that has been seen - and no doubt you worked very hard - as a failure.

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