"If you have two or three sovereign state institutions fighting each other, it means democracy failed,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

- 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

One situation is when you're speaking with a friend who had given you really good advice that you failed to take.

一种情况是，当你正在和一个朋友交谈，他之前曾给你一些很好的建议，但你却没有采纳。

I should have 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"The point is . you know the negotiations have failed so far.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

and you failed to invest in that stock right before it took off through the charts.

你却没来得及在这只股票大涨之前及时投资。

I should have 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Every now and then you read in the newspaper about somebody whose parachute failed to open and so they died.

不时地你会在报纸上看到,某人的降落伞没打开导致他们死了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The ones that are beautiful for framing are the ones that failed, so you can see all the coupons.

那些用来陈列的债券,其实都是违约的,因此你们才能看到息票

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And, one other thing that I failed to point out, if you take a look at the energies associated with the outermost electrons, in this case, lithium, you see it's 0.5 megajoules per mole, and then what's the 6.26?

还有另外一点我忘记提到的是，如果你观察离最外层,的电子的能量，在这种情况，对于锂，你可以得到，它是每摩尔0。5兆焦，那么6。26是什么呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Some of your response papers that you'll hand in-- " none of them are graded; they are all just graded "pass/failed"-- you'll have to hand them in and then you'll pass.

一些你们要交上来的课后论文-,都不会被打分，都只会有“及格和不及格-,你们必须交论文，然后你们就及格了。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选