When I married my wife, I promised her I would listen to her every day as if for the first time. Now that's something I fall short of on a daily basis.

我娶我夫人的时候，我向她承诺我每天都会像我们第一次见面那样去倾听她，现在我每天都在下降。

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Human-rights groups have said the trials fall short of internationally accepted standards of justice, something that the government denies.

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Instead, by aiming for big markets it has delivered something more costly and complex than it needed to be, yet which stills fall short of being good enough to drive mass adoption.

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