1·He won't allow himself to fail.
他不容许自己失败。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·She was fearful that she would fail.
她生怕失败。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·Adoption can fail for all kinds of reasons.
收养可能因为各种各样的原因失败。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
4·He was afraid the revolution they had started would fail.
他担心他们发起的革命会失败。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
5·The project could fail if there is inadequate follow-through.
如果缺少恰当的后续行动，该项目可能失败。
—— 《牛津词典》
1·Those who fail can resit the exam in 60 days.
考试不及格的人可以在60天后重考。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·When I handed in my paper, I was afraid that I might fail because I did not answer the questions.
当我交论文的时候，我担心我可能会不及格，因为我没有回答问题。
3·This time, Brother didn't laugh much, he sighed a bit and asked me to give him the picture, "Kuan, after I grade this, can I keep it to show the other classes how to fail art class?
这次，罔达修士却没有像往常那样大笑，他只深深地叹了一口气，向我索要这幅画：“矿，我评完分后，我能不能留下这幅画，以后我可以给其他美术课的同学看看：有人是怎样在美术课上不及格的……”
4·'I'm going to fail,' he remembers thinking at the time.
他记得当时自己就在想：我会不及格的。
5·Schools that fail will not be tolerated: unless their performance improves, their principals will be fired, and if that does not do the trick, they will be closed.
那些评为不及格的学校将受到惩罚：如果它们的表现迟迟没有得到改善，那将会解雇它们的校长，如果这样还不能解决问题，就关闭这些学校。
1·If rivals stumble or fail, that may be down to their own inefficiency or poor products, and not because they were preyed upon.
因为竞争对手如果亏损或破产，可能是由于效率低下或者产品不过硬，而非利润受到掠夺。
2·But if several big firms fail simultaneously, then all the planning in the world might not help.
但是当好几家大公司都要同时破产，那么这个世界上现存的所有计划都会失效。
3·Giving more money to people when they fail and taking more money away from people when they work doesn't increase work.
在人们破产时给他们更多的钱和在人们有工作时把钱从他们那里拿走并不能增加就业。
4·The first is to make it less likely that banks will fail in the next crisis.
第一个目的就是确保在下次危机来袭之时，银行破产的可能性会降低。
5·But it would still do better to let the car firms fail.
不过说到底，还是让汽车公司们破产比较好。
1·One is that traditional measures fail to reflect service-sector productivity growth because it has been concentrated in improved quality of services.
一是传统的衡量方法未能反映服务业生产率的增长，因为它集中在服务质量的提高上。
2·Too many corporate boards fail in their two crucial responsibilities of overseeing long-term company strategy and of selecting, evaluating, and determining appropriate compensation of top management.
太多公司的董事会未能履行其监督公司长期战略和选择、评估和决定高级管理人员适当薪酬这两项关键职责。
3·Two-thirds of candidates fail at this first hurdle and are sent home.
2/3的候选人未能通过这第一关，被打发回家了。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
4·Counterparty risk-the risk that the one of the parties in a financial contract will fail to deliver-is an obvious phenomenon in the real world, but tends to be ignored in textbooks.
交易双方风险，是指在金融交易中，交易双方的其中一方未能交割引发的一种风险。这在现实世界中是个明显的现象，但教科书里往往会遗漏掉。
5·The deserters are resourceful, but can't handle thinking ahead; they bicker and squabble and fail to come down off the fence (help the women, or kill them?) until it's almost too late.
两个逃兵可谓机智但缺乏长远之计，他们争论不休，却迟迟未能定夺到底是帮助这些女人还是杀掉她们。
1·A 2004 study found that most software projects (51%) will fail in a critical aspect, and 15% will fail totally.
◐04年的一项研究显示，超过51%的项目在部分模块上面临失败，15%将遭遇完败。
2·We decided to sail our Lulz Boat over to the PBS servers for further . . . perusing. " Above the message read the tagline: "Set sail for fail!"
我们所以决定开启我们Lulz的黑客之船到PBS官网服务器上去玩玩，窃取更多的信息”在这条消息的标题是：“但求一败！”
3·Most people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
大多数人不是计划失败，而是败于没计划。
4·He is also a very, very fast runner. His plans hardly ever fail.
他是个跑步健将，而他的打算从未曾失踪败。
5·It never occurred to me that we could fail at outsourcing.
我从没过我们会败在外包上。
1·Making it happen is what counts, and this is the difficult bit - which is why so many seemingly clever schemes fail.
重要的是让想法付诸实施，而这很困难——这正是那么多看似更聪明的计划落空的原因所在。
2·This week Brussels threatened to get tough as it becomes clear that the industry will fail to meet a voluntary 25% cut in carbon-dioxide emissions promised by 2008.
相关人员本周在布鲁塞尔表示，将进一步严格限制排放，因为有迹象表明汽车行业承诺在2008年内削减25%的二氧化碳排放很有可能落空。
3·How much power will do much; not wait, wait often fail.
有多少力量，就做多少事；切莫等待，等待常会落空。
4·For dreams fade, hopes fail, the gathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore.
因为梦境消逝，希望落空，你采集的岁月的果实也腐烂了。但是，我是永恒的真实，在你从此岸到彼岸的生命旅程中，你将与我一再相逢。
5·In fact, some of the things I cherish what I hold will not fail?
其实有些东西我再去珍惜又有何用难道我抱紧就会不落空？
1·His sight is beginning to fail.
他的视力开始衰退。
—— 《新英汉大辞典》
2·Why financial markets fail and how bank regulation takes account of the risks facing international banks.
金融市场衰退的原因；面对国际银行跨国背景，银行规则如何承担风险。
3·The peripheral fatigue model, which dominated for 100 years, holds that fatigue occurs when muscles begin to fail in a way that will ultimately lead to physiological catastrophe i. e.
神经末梢疲劳模型理论，这个理论已经主导了100年之久，它认为疲劳是由于肌肉开始衰退，最终导致生理上异常(比如：你会放慢速度或是停止)。
4·From a psychological performance, most middle-aged man of learning, memory begins to fail, and the lack of change in living conditions make them easy to produce dull sense.
从心理性能来说，大部分中年人的学习、记忆能力开始衰退，而且缺少变化的生活环境使他们易产生枯燥乏味感。
1·It was compensation for the precious things your arrest deprived me of - the Xmas, wedding anniversary and birthday CARDS - the little things about which you never fail to think.
这是对因你被捕而令我失去的那些宝贵的东西的补偿—圣诞节、结婚纪念日和生日卡—这些你从来不会忘记的。
2·Don't fail to ring me up.
不要忘记给我打电话。
3·Never fail to be thankful to the people around you.
永远不要忘记对你身边的人存感恩之情。
1·But if we fail at the thing by which we define ourselves and at which we hope to prove special, that's serious.
但是如若在我们定义自我或者我们希望证明自己与众不同的事上遭遇失败，那么它将意义非凡。
2·Even a balanced and reasonable individual is likely to fail in this situation.
即便是一个稳重理性的人，面对这种情景也会遭遇失败。
3·You can't really live unless you're willing to take risks and sometimes fail.
你不能说你真的活著， 除非你愿意承担风险，并且有时也遭遇失败。