I'm not going to sit around and take the blame for a mistake he made.

我不会闲坐着，为他犯的错误承担责任。

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Wasn't your decision to trade off programmer efficiency, security, and software reliability for run time performance a fundamental mistake?

你在为运行时性能权衡编程效率、安全、软件可靠性而做出的决定是否是一个根本错误？

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Someone will make a mistake for certain and take the wrong ones.

一个人总会会犯错误，走错路的。

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U.S.Defense Secretary Robert Gates has rejected calls for a withdrawal deadline for American troops, saying that would be a "strategic mistake".

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So the exodus is a paradigm for salvation, but it would be a mistake, I think, to view the Exodus as the climax of the preceding narrative.

出埃及是救赎的范本，但我认为，这也许是个错误，把《出埃及记》当做前面叙述的高潮。

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And this is called the Pratfall Effect, that our liking for the competent person grows when they make a mistake, when they do something embarrassing, when they have a failure experience. Okay?

心理学上，这叫“失态效应，我们对有能力之人的喜爱之情再次升华,当他们犯错，出洋相，经历很衰的事情时？

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There are so many options, and it's a mistake for a student to say, 'A big-name school is the only place for me.

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