Steve: Don't bother. I trusted you to run things here while I was out of the office, and you failed. You're fired.

史提夫：不用麻烦了。我不在办公室期间，我信任你会好好管理这里，你却做不到。你被炒鱿鱼了。

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Her parents did not approve of her decision and, if she failed, her mother would say, "I told you so."

她的父母没有同意她的决定，如果她失败了，她的母亲就会说，“我早跟你说过。”

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So let me tell you about one green marketing campaign that failed at first and explain why.

所以，让我告诉你一个一开始失败了的绿色营销活动以及原因。

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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。

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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。

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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？

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And you could be gone, but I've never failed you and I've always given you music.

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You excelled and failed in equal measure, wished people expected more of you and loathed yourself when they asked for more than you could give.

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Money is great, but if all you see of your growing kids is when the nannies are feeding them breakfast and dinner, you have failed.

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