这显然是一个自以为不会失败的人所经历的一次失败。

This was clearly a failure by someone who thought he was above failure.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

要是我不会失败，现在会怎么做？

What would I do right now if I couldn’t fail?

youdao

将每一步都要分得相当小，你就不会失败。

Make each step really, really small, and you won't fail.

youdao

And you know the answer is yes because I wouldn't set myself up for failure like this, would I?

你知道答案是，是,因为我不会为了这个而承担失败的风险，为什么我不会呢？

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The person in the middle if they enter here loses, so they're not going to want to enter.

中间的那个人,如果他们参选将会失败,所以他们不会想去参选

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One is that she loses, she's not going to win this election by standing.

其一是她会失败,她不会由于参选而获胜

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