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v. 失败，不及格40 次
A cartoon mocks a group failing to converse because they’re all in headphones.
一幅漫画嘲讽了一群人因为都戴着耳机而无法交谈。
Rivkin joined the MPA in 2017 after the organization failed five years earlier to build consensus between Hollywood and Silicon Valley to win passage of legislation in Congress aimed at stopping online piracy.
里夫金于2017年加入美国电影协会，在此五年前，该组织未能在好莱坞和硅谷之间达成共识，以推动国会通过旨在制止网络盗版的立法。
failed to win support from local authorities.
未能赢得地方政府的支持。
Yet despite two decades of strategies and a number of major health reforms, we have failed to make meaningful progress on any of these aims.
然而，尽管二十年来出台了各种战略、进行了多项重大医疗改革，我们在这些目标上都未能取得实质性进展。
Remember that in light of whatever the problem the old system solved — or, maybe, has failed to solve in recent memory — it was a great idea at the time.
记住，无论旧系统解决了什么问题——或者，也许是近来没能解决什么问题——在当时它都是个好主意。
Coming at a time of fresh incentives from the UK government for landowners to grow more trees, the trade body says these don’t go far enough and fail to promote the benefits of planting them to boost timber supplies.
就在英国政府推出新的激励措施鼓励土地所有者多种树之际，该行业组织表示，这些措施力度不够，未能宣传通过植树增加木材供应的好处。
v. 衰退，减弱1 次
keeps our memory from failing.
防止我们的记忆力衰退。
v. （机器等）出故障，失灵大纲外1 次
“If they fail first and then you fix them, it’s very expensive,” says Domingos.
“如果等它们先出故障再去修，代价会非常高，”多明戈斯说。