And if great things have been a failure with you, have ye yourselves therefore--been a failure? And if ye yourselves have been a failure, hath man therefore--been a failure? If man, however, hath been a failure: well then! never mind!英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
Her words were distorted by her tears. It was the most terrible and distressing of crises. "Go away from me! How can you help me? All I've done has been a failure! Failure! Failure!"英文原著 · 《The Research Magnificent》
First of all, cleanliness should be observed. When there is dust or dirt about your room, particularly about the work-bench, failures will be frequent; for the smallest particles of rotten-stone, when allowed to come in contact with the buffs, will produce scratches on the surface of the plate, which very much injures the operation, and often causes failures.英文原著 · 《American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype》
That marriage is a failure none but the very stupid will deny. One has but to glance over the statistics of divorce to realize how bitter a failure marriage really is. Nor will the stereotyped Philistine argument that the laxity of divorce laws and the growing looseness of woman account for the fact that: first, every twelfth marriage ends in divorce; second, that since 1870 divorces have increased from 28 to 73 for every hundred thousand population; third, that adultery, since 1867, as ground for divorce, has increased 270.8 per cent.; fourth, that desertion increased 369.8 per cent.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
"Prosperity doesn't come my way," he said in a rusty voice. "I'm a failure--always been a failure. And yet you wouldn't think it, would you?--I was a minister of religion once."英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
[With intense earnestness.] But look here, Joy, I know a really clever man--an author. He says that if marriage is a failure people ought to be perfectly free; it isn't everybody who believes that marriage is everything. Of course, I believe it 's sacred, but if it's a failure, I do think it seems awful--don't you?英文原著 · 《Joy》
You don't spend two whole years of your life giving it everything, and then walk away feeling like a failure.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
As is your failure to tell me you were going back to work for Axelrod.美剧 · 《Billions》
Failure is getting to be a familiar refrain with you.美剧 · 《Billions》