fail to do

基本解释

Simple, because this is exactly what a lot of musicians fail to do!
原因很简单，因为很多音乐人正是缺乏了这种思想，才导致事业失败的。
It's not very productive to get angry and upset every time you fail to do something.
每次失败都生气或心烦意乱，这样对提高意志力是没有成效的。
If you fail to do this, you will get several errors from various subsystems that didn't have a chance to properly initialize themselves.
如果这个调用失败，就会从没有机会正确初始化自己的各个子系统得到多个错误消息。

And,if they fail to do so within six months, it says the UN Security Council should turn the matter over to the International Criminal Court Prosecutor.
What else I can do, there's no requirement for me to fail anybody.
我还做些其他什么呢，对于我让学生挂科这点没有任何的要求。
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There is also the constant, creative tension around experimentation and making sure everyone in the organization feels it's better to experiment, fail and then move on and experiment again than to not do that.
而且，在技术试验上，他总会持续迸发出创造性的火花,在这之前，马克会去确认,团队里的每一个人是否同意试验，如果第一次失败，我们会继续,而不是停止试验。
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Human-caused climate change is but one example of what occurs when we fail to do so.
UN: Secretary-General