But people who knew her said failed marriages, and the failure of her latest movie also led to her death.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

This is where evaluation comes in. The success or failure of a poem depends on the realization of meaning.

这时就需要评估介入了，一首诗好与坏,取决于它含义表达是否清晰。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I think it's telling that this kind of creation is a failure; it cannot succeed in the confines of this novel.

我想这告诉我们这种创作是失败的;,它在这本小说的界限内无法成功。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The current economic downturn grew out of a culture of irresponsible lending and borrowing and "a failure of the entire system,"

VOA: special.2009.06.19

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？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

And it would create a group to identify and regulate companies that are so big, their failure could threaten the economy.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

It's about getting rid of limitations, of barriers, whether it's the fear of failure, something that we didn't have as kids.

也就是摆脱限制，阻碍，或者对失败的恐惧，这些东西在并不是与生俱来的。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

While the Whigs made bitter speeches about the failure of the party's legislative program, Tyler worked to improve relations with Britain.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Because it says, your program will still give you a value, but it may not be what you intended, and you can't always tell, and that may propagate it's way down through a whole bunch of other computations before it causes some catastrophic failure.

因为这意味着，你的程序依然会返回一个值，但是这个值可能不是你想要的，你可能还分辨不出来，而且这种情况会传播,结果会沿着正果计算过程传播下去,直到产生一个灾难性的错误。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

What happens is your immune response goes haywire and then your body starts to attack itself, so theres a failure to shutdown.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

So if you want to invent, if you want to innovate, failure is part and parcel with that.

所以如果想要发明，想要创造，失败是不可或缺的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

On Thursday President Obama blamed the incident on what he called a "systemic failure across organizations and agencies."

VOA: special.2010.01.09

This was a failure because people could not go near the tickle machine without convulsing in laughter.

这是一个失败的发明,因为人们还没靠近挠痒痒的机器,就已经被它的模样逗笑了

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He told them: "The war for the Union is, in your hands, a most bloody and costly failure.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

If the meaning is not clear in the poem, we judge the poem a failure.

如果诗歌的意思表达不明确，那么它就称不上是首好诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"My sister has been in renal failure for months now." "You're supposed to give her a kidney?"

VOA: special.2009.06.12

With the abhorred shears she cruelly punishes the virgin poet for his failure on the one hand to use the sexual body that God has endowed him with, but you also have the image here of the poet's death.

她用剪刀残忍了惩罚了未失童真的诗人,一方面因为他没能利用上帝赋予他的,性的肉体，但这里也有诗人死亡的形象。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

With over 600 billion dollars in debt, Lehman's failure was the largest bankruptcy in United States history.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

Interesting. Even though the market seized up very dramatically afterwards and we had some of the most difficult short-term financial consequences of that failure?

有意思，尽管市场严重失灵,我们面临着,许多短期的,非常严重的后果？

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

A main concern is that the failure of some banks or governments to pay their debts could send a financial shock across many countries.

VOA: special.2009.03.06

This was motivated by a spectacular failure of a brokerage, Goodbody & Co., in 1970.

一家证券经纪行的倒闭改变了这一状况,古德巴迪公司,于1970年倒闭

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

One goal is to increase supervision of big companies whose failure could threaten the financial system.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

So think about, I don't want to push this too hard but think about other games where people are communicating to fail, to avoid a failure of coordination.

我不想把问题说得太严重,我们不妨举一些沟通失败的博弈案例,或者说努力避免沟通失败

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

When there is crop failure because of a drought or flood, farmers receive a text message.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

But in fact, in his own way, he's talking about his inability ; to keep his child alive there; in a kind of metaphorical way, speaking of his failure to build a fence to last.

但事实上，以他自己的方式，他在诉说自己的无能,不能让孩子活下来;,以一种象征性的方式，谈论自己不能制作出一个一直在那的栅栏。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

She spent the next four years documenting the events and the world's failure the intervene.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

There will be success and there will be failure.

既然有成功,就会有失败

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Failure to put senators on the negotiating team,they say, cost him valuable support later on.

VOA: special.2010.11.04

Does he hold it out as a real possibility ? or must it be considered a failure in some way or that if the dialogue does end in failure ? what can we learn from that?

他是否坚持真有可能性,或那必需被多少视为是一项失败,如果对话以失败结束,我们又能从中学到什么？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He argued that in 586, with the destruction of Jerusalem and the people were taken into exile in Babylon, that was when, in Babylon, the priests were able to assume control, and they were able to play on the exiles' overwhelming feelings of guilt and failure.

他在586年争论，当耶路撒冷被摧毁,人们被驱逐至巴比伦时，就是彼时彼地，牧师们能够实行控制，他们能利用流放者们汹涌的感情,他们的罪恶感和失败感。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选