Integral have these time-based technologies become to day-to-day existence that our dependency on them is recognised only when they fail to work.

这些基于时间的技术已经融入了我们的日常生活，只有当它们不起作用时，我们才会意识到我们对它们的依赖。

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They have never worried about the soaring price of cabbage but when they fail to cash deposit money they are more anxious than housewives.

他们从不担心白菜价格飙升，但当他们无法兑现存款时，他们比家庭主妇更焦虑。

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And when they fail, they go hungry or they die.

而当出现什么问题，他们就会因此挨饿，甚至死亡。

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Mr.Obama also endorsed Geithner's request for power to seize financial institutions other than banks when they fail.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

And if we also ask the positive question, then some new possibilities,new quests open up, just like they did for the researchers when they started to ask ?" no longer "why do so many individuals fail?"

如果我们也问积极问题，那就会出现新的可能性，新的探索，就像他们对研究学者所问的一样,不再问“为什么有这么多人堕落“

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They act as if they will succeed when they know they will fail.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

Problems arise when they fail to tell their GP that they have stopped taking the drugs.

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Elections can sweep Islamists to power, but they can also sweep them out when they fail to perform.

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Technologies continue to get more bigger, more complex, and more dangerous, so they can be catastrophic when they fail.

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