Fear of rejection is probably one reason people make a big effort not to fail at work.

对排斥的恐惧可能是一个人们尽最大努力不在工作上失败的原因。

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The record leaves no doubt that we were looking for excuses to make the negotiations succeed, not to fail.

记录毫无疑问证明，我们当时是在寻找各种理由使谈判成功，而不是使谈判失败。

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At some point, we must decide to stop trying and deliberately choose not to fail; simply choose to succeed.

某个时候，我们必须决定停止尝试并且坚定地拒绝失败，果断追求成功。

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At sixty degrees below zero, a man with wet feet must not fail in his first attempt to build a fire.

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But nobody believes the government when they say that because people say, surely the U.S. Government is not going to allow Fannie and Freddie to fail.

但是没人相信政府表态,因为人们觉得美国政府肯定不会,让房利美和房地美倒闭的

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There is also the constant, creative tension around experimentation and making sure everyone in the organization feels it's better to experiment, fail and then move on and experiment again than to not do that.

而且，在技术试验上，他总会持续迸发出创造性的火花,在这之前，马克会去确认,团队里的每一个人是否同意试验，如果第一次失败，我们会继续,而不是停止试验。

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Banks enjoy guarantees not to fail unless the U.S. government goes down with them.

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He pulled out all the stops starting after Lehman Brothers sent the market into a tizzy to pull this country up by its bootstraps and almost will it not to fail.

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Thus it makes sense that before you start down the entrepreneur path, you would do some extra work to make sure you are not about to fail one more time.

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