Following two days of political and economic talks in Beijing, Secretary Clinton told reporters she discussed what she found to be "shortcomings" in the Iranian response with Chinese officials.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

I'm going to argue for the latter of what I just said, for the fact that human nature needs to be obeyed with all its flaws,with all its shortcomings, as opposed to attempting to perfect it on the psychological level.

我会谈到后者，就是说我们必须顺从于人性,接受它所有的缺陷和优点，而不是试图从心理层面上,完善它。

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"Those who come after us will work on our product. They will make it better, they will make it stronger, they will find our shortcomings in this bill,they will add to it, they will subtract from it.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24