Though he acknowledges that engineering works can fail because the person who thought them up or engineered them simply got things wrong, in this book Dr. Petroski widens his view to consider the larger context in which such failures occur.

尽管彼得罗斯基博士承认，由于设计工程项目或实施项目的人会犯错，工程项目可能会失败，但他在这一本书中进一步拓宽了自己的观点，将更多可能导致失败的因素考虑了进来。

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Which person or process has the job of identifying when failures occur?

当一个失效发生时哪个人或处理应该做鉴别的工作？

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I've found that the majority of failures occur because this principle is ignored.

我已经知道大多数失败的发生是因为这条原则被忽略了。

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Bank failures occur when there's not enough gold in the vault and then people start asking for the gold and the goldsmith banker doesn't have it to give out.

当金库没有足够的黄金时,银行就会倒闭,因为当人们开始索要黄金时,金匠银行家却拿不出来

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That can slow a project's timetable considerably, but agency officials over the years have maintained the approach gives them deeper understanding of potential design weaknesses and how to respond when failures occur.

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Authorities said the remaining section of the bridge has been examined and won't need replacing, raising questions over whether more failures could occur if the 58-year-old bridge's design isn't altered.

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But I also believe that market economies sometimes have market failures, and when these occur, there's a role for prudential -- not excessive -- regulation of the financial system.

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