If you curse someone and take them out, you'll also be defeated in retribution.

如果你咒并将其除掉，你也会遭到报应的失败。

Most of us fail in our efforts at self-improvement because our schemes are too ambitious and we never have time to carry them out.

我们大多数想自我完善却遭到失败，这是因为我们的规划过于宏大，又根本没有时间去实施。

In 1653, frustrated with lack of progress, he dissolved the rump of the Long Parliament and, after the failure of his Puritan convention made himself lord protector.

1653年，长期议院的清教徒大会推举克伦威尔为护国公遭到失败，后他苦于没有进展解散了长期议院。

Poor Jo tried desperately to be good, but her bosom enemy was always ready to flame up and defeat her, and it took years of patient effort to subdue it.

可怜的乔拼命想表现得好，可是她胸中的敌老是想爆发出来，使她遭到失败。看来要经过许多年的耐心的努力才能制服它。