他们努力使他苏醒，但失败了。

Their efforts to revive him were futile.

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囚犯企图逃跑，但失败了。

The prisoners attempted an escape, but failed.

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2012年，刘艳芝开了一家美容店，但失败了。

In 2012, Liu opened a beauty shop but failed.

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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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This failed.

但这个方法失败了。

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How come the market, in other words, m a disciple of free market, I can understand why the government messes up, s much harder to understand why the free market messes up.

为什么市场，换句话说，我信奉市场经济，I’,我能理解为何政府干预失败，但想了解，it’,为何市场经济失败就很难了。

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