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失败
shī bài
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- pinyin
- shī bài
- simplified
- 失败
- traditional
- 失敗
1 · 动词
to fail (e.g. experiments)
失败(例如实验)
This word already occurs in accepted examples; this entry binds one distinct context.
People are not remembered by the number of times they fail but for the number of times they succeed.
English pronunciation · Synthesized MP3 · Candidate — listening review pending
人们被记得不是因失败的次数，而是成功的次数。
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