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v. 失败，不及格40 次
A cartoon mocks a group failing to converse because they’re all in headphones.
一幅漫画嘲讽了一群人因为都戴着耳机而无法交谈。
Rivkin joined the MPA in 2017 after the organization failed five years earlier to build consensus between Hollywood and Silicon Valley to win passage of legislation in Congress aimed at stopping online piracy.
里夫金于2017年加入美国电影协会，在此五年前，该组织未能在好莱坞和硅谷之间达成共识，以推动国会通过旨在制止网络盗版的立法。
failed to win support from local authorities.
未能赢得地方政府的支持。
Yet despite two decades of strategies and a number of major health reforms, we have failed to make meaningful progress on any of these aims.
然而，尽管二十年来出台了各种战略、进行了多项重大医疗改革，我们在这些目标上都未能取得实质性进展。
Remember that in light of whatever the problem the old system solved — or, maybe, has failed to solve in recent memory — it was a great idea at the time.
记住，无论旧系统解决了什么问题——或者，也许是近来没能解决什么问题——在当时它都是个好主意。
Coming at a time of fresh incentives from the UK government for landowners to grow more trees, the trade body says these don’t go far enough and fail to promote the benefits of planting them to boost timber supplies.
就在英国政府推出新的激励措施鼓励土地所有者多种树之际，该行业组织表示，这些措施力度不够，未能宣传通过植树增加木材供应的好处。
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failed
失败
have failed to provide an adequate service.
未能提供足够的服务。
In other words, they all share a view that the international tax system has failed to keep up with the current economy.
换句话说，它们都认为国际税收体系没能跟上当前的经济发展。
They are acting because national governments — Britain’s and others across Europe — have failed to do so.
他们之所以采取行动，是因为国家政府——英国政府以及欧洲其他国家的政府——没有这样做。
Every time we fail at something, we can choose to look for the lesson we’re meant to learn.
每当我们在某件事上失败时，我们都可以选择去寻找我们应该吸取的教训。
Failing at something can help you discover your truest friends, or help you find unexpected motivation to succeed.
在某件事上的失败可以帮助你发现最真挚的朋友，或者帮助你找到意想不到的成功动力。
It failed to pay due attention to patients’ rights.
它没有充分重视患者的权利。
This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.
这就是为什么近年来多次改革立法的尝试都以失败告终，致使邮政署除了推迟至关重要的现代化建设外，无法支付账单。
According to Paragraph 2, the USPS fails to modernize itself due to ____
根据第2段，美国邮政署未能实现现代化是由于____
Honestly, if we got stuck in the rut of “hi”, “hello”, “how are you?” and “what’s going on?”, you will fail to give the initial jolt to the conversation that can make it so memorable.
说实话，如果我们陷入“嗨”“你好”“你好吗？”和“最近怎么样？”这种老套路，你就无法在一开始给交谈带来那种能让它令人难忘的冲击。
The high court’s decision said the judge in Mr. McDonnell’s trial failed to tell a jury that it must look only at his “official acts,” or the former governor’s decisions on “specific” and “unsettled” issues related to his duties.
最高法院的判决称，审理麦克唐奈先生一案的法官没有告诉陪审团，他们只能审视他的“官方行为”，即这位前州长对与其职责相关的“具体”和“悬而未决”问题所做的决定。
Parkrun is succeeding where London’s Olympic “legacy” is failing.
在伦敦奥运会“遗产”失败的地方，“公园跑”却取得了成功。
Official retrospections continue as to why London 2012 failed to “inspire a generation.”
官方仍在反思为何2012年伦敦奥运会未能“激励一代人”。
The author believes that London’s Olympic “legacy” has failed to____
作者认为伦敦奥运会的“遗产”未能____
On the other hand, Tronick himself is concerned that the worries about kids’ use of screens are born out of an “oppressive ideology that demands that parents should always be interacting” with their children: “It’s based on a somewhat fantasised, very white, very upper-middle-class ideology that says if you’re failing to expose your child to 30,000 words you are neglecting them.”
另一方面，特罗尼克本人担心，对孩子使用屏幕的忧虑源于一种“要求父母应该始终与孩子互动的压迫性观念”：“这种观念有点脱离现实，非常白人化，非常中上阶层化，它认为如果你没能让孩子接触到三万个单词，你就是在忽视他们。”
Failing to recognize that, he notes, leads to “an overly simplified view of what the solutions might be.
他指出，认识不到这一点，就会导致“对可能的解决方案持过于简单化的看法。
The overly simplified view Moritz mentions is a result of failing to ___
莫里茨提到的过于简单化的看法是由于未能___
The French measures have already failed.
法国的举措已经失败。
He has failed to understand that monarchies have largely survived because they provide a service — as non-controversial and non-political heads of state.
他未能明白，君主制之所以基本得以存续，是因为它们提供了一种服务——充当没有争议、不涉政治的国家元首。
fails to change his lifestyle as advised.
没有按建议改变他的生活方式。
fails to adapt himself to his future role.
未能使自己适应未来的角色。
is to fail in the foreseeable future.
在可预见的将来注定失败。
This has created “a paradox” in that recruiting first-generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has “continued to reproduce and widen, rather than close” an achievement gap based on social class, according to the depressing beginning of a paper forthcoming in the journal Psychological Science.
根据即将发表在《心理科学》杂志上的一篇论文那令人沮丧的开头，这造成了“一个悖论”：招收第一代大学生，却眼看着他们中的许多人失败，这意味着高等教育“一直在复制并扩大而非缩小”基于社会阶层的成就差距。
have failed their college.
大学学业失败了。
fails to affect the ad industry.
不会影响广告业。
Then his marriage failed, his career burned out and his drinking became serious.
后来他婚姻破裂，事业受挫，酗酒也变得严重起来。
Her critique of the lameness of many public-health campaigns is spot-on: they fail to mobilize peer pressure for healthy habits, and they demonstrate a seriously flawed understanding of psychology.
她对许多公共卫生运动乏力无效的批评切中要害：这些运动未能调动同伴压力来培养健康习惯，而且表现出对心理学严重错误的理解。
Rage Against the Haze failed once state funding was cut.
州政府的资金一被削减，“向烟雾宣战”项目就失败了。
In the author's view, Rosenberg's book fails to ____
在作者看来，罗森伯格的书未能____
Of course, it is precisely these superfluous things that define human culture and ultimately what it is to be human. Downloading and consuming culture requires great skills, but failing to move beyond downloading is to strip oneself of a defining constituent of humanity.
当然，正是这些非必需的东西界定了人类文化，并最终界定了人之为人的意义。下载和消费文化需要高超的技能，但若不能超越下载，就等于剥夺了自己身上人性的一个决定性组成部分。
fail to fulfill their social responsibilities.
没有履行社会责任。
failing to fulfill her duty.
未能履行职责。
failed to get state subsidies.
未能获得政府补贴。
fail to reach an agreement on harmonization.
未能在协调问题上达成一致。
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keeps our memory from failing.
防止我们的记忆力衰退。
v. （机器等）出故障，失灵大纲外1 次
“If they fail first and then you fix them, it’s very expensive,” says Domingos.
“如果等它们先出故障再去修，代价会非常高，”多明戈斯说。