Even if your own efforts at humor fall short, you might be freeing the long kept humor in others.
即使你自己在提升幽默上的努力没有达到预期的效果，你也可能对别人表现出身上保存已久的幽默感。
We should be aware that our imagination has this built-in feature, the blind spot, which makes our predictions fall short of reality.
我们应该意识到，我们的想象力拥有这个固有的特征，也就是盲点，这使得我们的预测与现实不符。
This is an important point. Expecting perfection of regulators undermines their authority when they fall short.
这一点很重要：对规制者表现完美的期待，会使其在出现不足时权威受损。
Social change is difficult, and some projects are bound to fall short or take longer than expected.
社会变革是困难的，因此有些项目难免比预期缩短或延长。
But what counts is how things look from the perspective of the children - whether they feel just as loved when they mess up or fall short.
但真正重要的是孩子们感受到的是什么样子—他们是否不管做对、做错或做得不够好都感受到了父母不变的关爱。
There are other honorable bills out there that have much to recommend them but fall short because they do not include mandatory greenhouse gas reductions or a price signal.
那里还有很多其他值得推荐但没有推荐的可敬议案因为它们没有包括规定的温室气体减排或一个代价信号。
In fact, this chapter is almost too full of examples and ideas; and once again, in their eagerness to present everything, the authors fall short on organizational logic.
实际上，本章的例子很丰富并且富有思想；并且他们的热心再次用在了每件事上，作者在组织逻辑上有些缺乏。
In an age when development teams routinely work in domains that are foreign to them, however, the traditional SRS may fall short as a requirements gathering process.
但是，在开发小组在他们不熟悉的领域进行日常工作的时代，传统的SRS作为需求收集过程可能有所欠缺。
Although many integration products claim to support this architectural approach, many products fall short in their ability to provide enterprise integration requirements.
尽管很多集成产品声称支持这一体系结构方法，但多数产品不具备满足企业集成需求的能力。
If they fall short, why don’t Oprah and her celebrity judges give them another chance and teach them how to do better?
如果他们钱不够用，为什么奥普拉和那些名人评委不能再给一个机会，并且提出让他们能做得更好的建议。
Republicans need to gain 10 seats to win a majority in the Senate, but most analysts believe they will fall short.
共和党则需要获得10个议席才能成为参议院多数派，但是大部分分析家认为，他们得不到那么多。
And although some may nod in agreement to this notion, the organization's motivation to grant this "authority" and "responsibility" may well fall short of what is actually required.
虽然一些人可能点头同意这个想法，但是组织授予此“权力”和“职责”的动机可能缺乏实际中需要的东西。
Together they work better than either one does alone, but they still fall short of being an optimal solution for any of the three business drivers for capturing a process.
二者结合的效果超过单独使用其中任何一个的效果，但仍然不是满足捕获流程的三个业务驱动因素要求的最优解决方案。
Their actions frequently fall short of expectations raised by their words.
他们的行为经常低于他们的言语带来的预期。
So if the cash flows fall short of the interest payments, they need to be restructured — at a big cost to the investors who own them.
因此一旦现金流不及利息支出所需，这些证券就面临重组——而持有这些债券的投资者将付出高昂代价。
However, such basic shapes fall short of expectations when it comes to some heavy duty vector drawing.
然而，当需要画一些复杂的矢量图时，这些基础图形就不够用了。
The car is quiet and efficient, but its handling and quality of finish fall short of most foreign carmakers' models.
此车安静、节能，但操控和外观质量达不到多数外国汽车制造商的汽车标准。
"This year the choice was unanimous, for his obvious merits due to a lifestyle for which the words 'rock and roll' fall short, " Antonelli said in a statement.
安东内利在一份声明中说：“今年大家的意见都很一致，因为贝卢斯科尼的‘优势’很明显，他的生活作风用‘摇滚’二字都不足以形容。”
They predict world number one team Brazil will fall short in South Africa because of a tougher route through to the final than their main rivals.
据预测，世界排名第一的巴西队在南非世界杯上恐怕无缘冠军，因为与他们的主要竞争对手相比，巴西队晋级决赛的道路更为艰难。
You may be a brilliant developer, a highly skilled net admin, or a crackerjack DBA - but if you're unprofessional, your career is likely to fall short.
你可能是个聪明的开发人员，一个技术娴熟的网管，或是一个杰出的数据库管理员——但如果你是外行，那你的事业很可能岌岌可危。
They are likely to fall short of zero-tolerance and other requirements in the American church that parishes and communities be alerted to abusers.
他们可能做不到零容忍，也不会接受美国教会关于教会和社区对侵犯者警惕的其他要求。
If their companies flop, they know that they will be in the headlines, whereas other start-ups that fall short may go unnoticed.
他们知道如果公司创业失败，他们就会登上头条。其他的创业公司搞砸了，却可能没人知道。
Unfortunately, as we lovingly remember this person, our words fall short of the ears that most needed to hear them.
但不幸的是，当我们深切地去怀念这个人的时候，我们所说的话，已经传不到最需要听这些话的人的耳里了。
Commercial relational database management systems (DBMSs) address those issues but fall short in other areas.
商业关系数据库管理系统(DBMS)解决了这些问题，但是在其他方面有所欠缺。
When we fall short of our goals, we take steps to correct and address the issues in order to ensure compliance.
未能达到目标时，我们会采取措施更正并处理这些问题确保遵守监管。
The Copenhagen summit on climate change is going to fall short.
哥本哈根气候变化峰会将无法达成目标。
The Copenhagen summit on climate change is going to fall short.
哥本哈根气候变化峰会将无法达成目标。
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