Nelson Mandela, South Africa's beacon of decency, in London this week to celebrate his 90th birthday, spoke out against the "tragic failure of leadership in our neighbouring Zimbabwe".

南非的道德楷模纳尔逊·曼德拉本周在伦敦度过了他90岁的生日，他再次公开宣称“我们的邻国津巴布韦有一个悲惨的失败的领导者”。

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Thousands did not make it - tragic testimony to our collective failure to properly address their plight.

数千人却没能成功-这些悲剧证明了我们在妥善解决他们的困境方面集体失败。

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Owning to the historical limitation, Ansermo is doomed to be a tragic character, the readers can touch not only the failure of "self" but that of the whole society.

但由于历史的局限性，注定了他是一个悲剧人物，读者从他的身上不仅感受到了“自我”的失败，而且也感受到了整个社会的失败。

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"I believe this war to be a tragic failure that continues to undermine rather than advance our national security interests."

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The world is telling him he must douse the flames, admitting that the intifada has been a tragic failure.

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With a close reading of the evidence, it is hard not to see the Titanic disaster as a tragic example of government failure.

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