In fact one of the frankly best things I ever did as an undergraduate was, perhaps fittingly, take this course pass-fail.

实际上我上本科时做的最得意的事,恰当地说，就是把这门课的成绩看成及格和不及格两种。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But in spite of your best effort, you fail to lose a single kilogram.

但是即便你这么努力，你还是一斤肉都没减下来。

I'm frustrated 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The wonderful line he has in his last prose-fiction "Worstward Ho", Try again, fail again, fail better.

在他最后一部散文小说《向西去啊》有一句，再尝试，再失败，却更好地失败。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Don't fail him or he will drive you out just as he drove out the Canaanites. That's a theme in Deuteronomy.

不要让他失望，否则他也会驱逐你,就如同他驱逐迦南人，这是《申命记》的一个主题。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

We don't know what it's like to be dead, because every time we try to imagine it, we fail.

我们不知道死亡是什么样的，因为每次我们想象死亡，都无果而终。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Then if you fail to pay on the mortgage--pay off the debt -the lender can seize the property and sell it.

然而如果你无法偿还贷款,贷方可以没收这项财产并出售

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So you may take this course ultimately via pass-fail or letter grade and I am more than happy to chat with you about the implications and to sign any paper work such as the stack here that you might need.

你可能希望这门课采用及格-不及格分制或者分数制,我很乐意跟你聊下,两个打分制各自的含义,也可以帮你在这里签到。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So if your word game doesn't work when the words are 12 letters long, instead of continuing to debug 12 letter hands see if you can make it fail on a three letter hand.

因此如果你的单词游戏当输入单词,有12个字母的时候没法运行了，看看输入三个字母的单词它,能不能正常运行吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

They don't say to me, six bodies,one of them must fail.

他们没有告诉我，6个人当中要有1个挂科。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

And often, people with autism who are otherwise very high functioning will fail this task.

在某些方面天赋异禀的孤独症患者,也会在该任务上失败

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

This is one example that, without fail, people would say is a marvel of medicine and bioengineering, but that it's still something to keep track of.

刚才就是一个例子,在技术上我们并没有失败,人们也会称赞医学和生物工程的神奇,但仍然需要注意可能发生的情况

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

He wrote his son in 1704, he said, "I may die tomorrow, but be sure that you have little pleasure if you fail to follow my example.

他在一七零四年写给他的儿子信中说到,"我可能明天就死了,而如果你不能遵循我的的脚步,你是不会快乐的的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

So think about, I don't want to push this too hard but think about other games where people are communicating to fail, to avoid a failure of coordination.

我不想把问题说得太严重,我们不妨举一些沟通失败的博弈案例,或者说努力避免沟通失败

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And if we fail, they will denounce us.

如果我们失败了，会遭到谴责。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

whereas governments would let some banks fail.

而银行却自身难保。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

And if we also ask the positive question, then some new possibilities,new quests open up, just like they did for the researchers when they started to ask ?" no longer "why do so many individuals fail?"

如果我们也问积极问题，那就会出现新的可能性，新的探索，就像他们对研究学者所问的一样,不再问“为什么有这么多人堕落“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选