So with this month's HBR, we're attempting something unusual: devoting the entire issue to “the F word”—to examining the art and science of failing well.

（我那青年儿子和他的伙伴们一般管这叫“载入史册的失败”）因此本月的哈佛商业评论准备了别样的风格尝试：将整本刊物的主题定为“这个F世界”--用来测测在艺术和科学道路上的失败的价值。

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The first word begins with an F.

第一个词以F开头。

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"F" this and "F" that. And every timehe said the "F" word, people, for some reason,well, they cheered.

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Suppose I type in the word foo, F-O-O.

假如我输入了单词foo，F-O-O。

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But it is crass for Romney in particular to use the F word.

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But like the panic over marriage, this panic over the F word is more ideological than a realistic assessment of the world as we know it.

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So if the HRC says we're to eradicate the F-word from our language, just as the NAACP says we're to get rid of the N-word, then why do we allow the exceptions to the rule, and end up praising the offenders as friends of our communities?

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