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

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

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

This is actually something very near and dear to my heart because I literally would not be doing what I do in life today had I not taken a couple of courses here, this one in particular, pass fail.

事实上，我是很关心的,因为今天我就不会站在这里,如果当初我没有这里上课的话，这门课，要么过要么挂科。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

If you fail to take the test, you get zero, and I average the zero in.

如果你没能参加，那即是零分，我算平均分的时候会加入那个零分。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Banks are in trouble and as you know - they're starting to fail because they the value of their assets in the market is falling rapidly.

银行陷入危机，并且你知道,他们开始破产因为他们,市场中资产的价值,在迅速的降低。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

A lot of us might feel that a life like this, where we peak but then we stick around-- ... you know, isn't-- can at least fail to be as desirable in which we end with a bang.

很多人可能觉得生命是这样的，我们先到达巅峰然后下跌-,不是-,它无法令人满意地,让我们突然死去。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And I don't want to overplay the social importance of this, but go back a couple of years to what was happening in the aftermath of Katrina and realize how bad things get when things fail to be coordinated.

我不想再过分的强调它的重要性,不过我们不妨回顾一下几年前,卡特里娜飓风的灾后过程,就会认识到缺乏协调沟通是多么可怕

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And the commune, despite the fact that there's lots of-- you could hear in the distance the guns sometimes getting closer and closer, and attempts to break out fail miserably, they pass all sorts of impressive social legislation.

在公社里,尽管有很多...,公社不远处不时能听到枪声,不断逼近,而突围的尝试又屡次惨败,他们还通过了各式法律法规

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

There is also the constant, creative tension around experimentation and making sure everyone in the organization feels it's better to experiment, fail and then move on and experiment again than to not do that.

而且，在技术试验上，他总会持续迸发出创造性的火花,在这之前，马克会去确认,团队里的每一个人是否同意试验，如果第一次失败，我们会继续,而不是停止试验。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

- Part of the compulsion to repeat is, in a certain sense-- part of the hope of mastery in the compulsion to repeat is to keep up the kind of vigilance which you failed to have in the past and therefore fail to ward it off.

所以强迫性重复一部分可能是由于-,一种希望，人在重复回忆的时候,感觉可以保护自己，控制不让灾难再次发生,以便不会再次失足。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And that in my mind is one of the upsides of taking a course like this, pass fail, in order to take the edge off.

在我心中,考查课是对这门课程的一大提升，这个课程是按照。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

If you decide to opt in by a pass fail, I just need to sign your white study card or if you wanna decide before the 5th Monday, just grab the pink slip and I can sign that and you can turn that in at any point and I'm happy to chat during break today or after class if you have any questions or concerns.

如果你上我们的课程只是要一个分数，那么我只需要在你的白卡片上签个名就可以了,或者说，如果在第五周的周一前还没考虑好，把你的解聘书拿来，只要我签个字,任何时候你都开以离开我的教室,当然，如果你有任何问题和疑虑,我也很高心和大家做课下交流。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

A word about grades-- you may in fact take this course pass-fail.

关于分数我有两句话要说，这门课只分及格和不及格两种。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And five weeks less one day later I decided you know what this might actually be for me and I switched from pass-fail to letter graded status at that point in time.

而第五周的最后一天,我从上及格-不及格制的课程转为上数字学分制的课程,你们可能知道这对我来说意味着什么。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The Fed is taking on a serious risk in doing this because these assets that it takes on in exchange for Treasury securities could fail.

美联储这样做很有风险,因为这些他们作为国库证券交换来的,资产可能是个烂摊子。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选