Defeat and failure may make people humble.

挫折与失败会使人变得谦卑。

The power failure had traffic tangled in the city.

电力的中断使城市内的交通陷入混乱状态。

You're at serious risk of renal failure.

你很有可能会肾功能衰竭。

If people knew how to overcome failure?

如果人们了解 如何走出失败的阴影？

And then at the end of a whole bunch of failures is something that's great.

失败乃成功之母。

Rio's multi-million-dollar lab lost its license to operate after what WADA inspectors described as a failure to comply with the international standards.

里约身价上百万美元的实验室曾因WADA定不符合国际标准而失去运营许可证。

But not even a great health-care system can cure death and our failure to confront that reality now threatens this greatness of ours.

但是即使有一个伟大的医疗卫生体系，死亡也是法战胜的——而我们不能面对这个现实，正危及我们自身的伟大。

We will help people to live well, building a more preventative state, investing in people's success, rather than paying for failure.

我们将致力于提升民众生活品质，构建预会，把资源投入到助力民众增收致富上，而非单纯为民生困境兜底买单。

It says 'Due to a power failure the office is out of action. You can all take the day off'.

邮件上说" 由于停电，办公室法运作，今天休息。"

We would grow free to give things a go by accepting that failure was the acceptable norm.

一旦接受失败是家常便饭， 我们就可以随心所欲地放手一搏。

The salvage operation had been a complete failure.

打捞工作彻底失败了。

There are a few things to note about Puerto Rico's failure to pay principal and interest due on its Public Finance Corporation bonds.

波多黎各未能按时向公共金融公司支付债务的本金和利息，这件事有几点需要注意。

" Failure to answer is a felony offense" ?

“拒绝接听将是重罪”？

Authorities believe the collapse was due to a structural failure.

当局为坍塌是由于结构问题而导致的。

USA Today reported " egregious failures" by the facility's leadership and staff.

《今日美国》报道了该机构的领导层和工作人员的“严重失误”。

And you don't need to look far to find an example of that failure.

这样的失败例子随处可见。

15. M: Professor Johnson, last night when I was putting the finishing touches on my paper, a computer failure completely wiped out my files. Do you think I could have another day to retype it?

问题15. M: 约翰逊教授，昨晚在我的论文结尾时，计算机死机了，将我的文档整个删除。你能再多给我一天重新打一遍吗？

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure

我知道我有驾驭语言的才能和直面令人不快的现实的能力。这一切似乎造就了一个私人的天地，在此天地中我能挽回我在日常生活中的不得意。

Well, first, realize that you're not defined by your past successes or failures – despite what that insidious part of your brain might try to tell you.

首先，你要意识到，你并不是被过去的成功或失败所定义的——不管你大脑中那个阴险的部分会试图告诉你什么。

Your failures are your own, old man.

你的失败属于你一个人 老头。