环境对他们的考验达到了极限：有时殖民者成功了，有时他们失败了，然后消失了。

The environment tested them to the limits: sometimes the colonists were successful, sometimes they failed and vanished.

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一开始，他们失败了很多次。

At the beginning, they failed many times.

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他们失败了很多次，但并没有放弃。

They failed many times but didn't give up.

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They say this just goes to show what a dumb theory the personality theory is.

他们会说，这就刚好体现了人格理论的失败之处。

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So another parallel is people talk about these highly intelligent people from whom the President that surrounded himself, erh, FDR surrounded himself with highly intelligent people, that is no guarantee of anything, except brilliant rationalization for failures in some cases.

所以从另一个方面说,人们总在谈论这些,聪明的人,总统身边的，呃，罗斯福身边,就有高智商的人，但那保证不了什么，他们只能为失败,找到托词。

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