1. Because it was embarrassing to fail every time, he stopped checking the man when he crossed.
    一次次检查都找不出什么，这挺令人尴尬的，他也就不再在那司机过境时检查了。

2. When lights fuse, furniture gets rickety, pipes get clogged, or vacuum cleaners fail to operate,
    每当电灯保险丝烧断、家具榫头松动、管道堵塞、吸尘器不动时，

3. Would she fail again?
    这次它会不会又一次失败？

4. The pirates would often bury gold in the cave and then fail to collect it.
    海盗们过去常把金子埋藏在那个洞里，可后来却没能取走。

5. A cloned Albert Einstein might fail his physics class.
    克隆出的阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦可能物理课不及格。

6. You´ll fail in French unless you work harder.
    你要是不再加把劲儿, 法语就考不及格了.

7. Most of us fail in our efforts at self-improvement because our schemes are too ambitious and we never have time to carry them out.
    我们大多数人想自我完善却遭到失败，这是因为我们的规划过于宏大，而又根本没有时间去实施。

8. Cats never fail to fascinate human beings.
    猫总能引起人们的极大兴趣。

9. "Poor thing!" cried Bruce, "You, too, know what it is to fail."
    “可怜的小东西，”布鲁斯失声说。“你也尝到了失败是什么滋味。”

10. In the same way, a Russian might fail to see anything amusing in a joke which would make an Englishman laugh to tears.
    同样的道理，一则可以令英国人笑出泪来的笑话，俄国人听了可能觉得没有什么可笑之处。