failings

Although other people have failings, it's important when you think you've seen a shortcoming to ask "do I ever do that? "

虽然别人有缺点，但当你看到了一个缺点并自问“我曾经犯过同样的错误吗”时，这才是重要的。

Immigration and the property bubble made up for these failings for a while, but no longer.

外来移民和房产泡沫也许会暂时弥补一下上述的不足，但并不是长久之计。

That margin and other market failings add up to 20% to the cost of every sack.

这么一让价再加上其他市场弊端使得每袋粮成本损失高达20%。

So we are still far from understanding how much sophisticated people will or should plan to deal with their own likely failings.

因此，我们仍远未了解，那些成熟得多的人们，会如何或应该如何应对他们自己可能出现的过失。

A little old man now, he had been strong in his far off youth and was impatient with his physical failings.

现在是一个小老头了，年轻时他是非常强壮，对于自己的身体缺陷是很不耐心。

THE JUDGE SAY of him what you please, but I know my child's failings.

你想说他什么尽管说罢，但是我知道我孩子的短处。

At times, that anger is exploited by politicians, to gin up votes along racial lines, or to make up for a politicians own failings.

曾几何时，这种愤怒被政客们加以利用，以便以种族划线捞取选票，或者为政客自己的失利提供借口。

Despite my good qualities mentioned, I still have quite a few failings, such as my laziness, failure to be punctual, and a bit of shyness.

尽管被提及的我的优良品质，我仍然有一些失败，例如我的懒惰、疏忽是准时的和位胆怯。

Regulators did not cause the crisis, but things might have been done that were not done and there were specific procedural failings.

监管部门没有造成危机，但一些本应采取的措施却没有采取，而且出现了一些特殊的程序失误。

She said the violations exposed the failings of the International Council of Toy Industries, which is supposed to police the industry.

她说这样的违法行为暴露了玩具公司国际委员会的失职，他们被认为是企业的警察。

Say of him what you please, but I know my child's failings.

你想说他什么就尽情地说吧，但我了解孩子的缺点。

Publicly humbled by a frank report on its failings, the bank has made a raft of changes.

在以卑谦的姿态向公众坦白了自己的失误之后，瑞银做了大量的变革。

Among other failings, said the coroner, it gave troops "wholly inadequate" advice on coping with the searing heat.

验尸官称，部队为军人应对灼热气候提供的建议“完全不足够”，而这仅是他们失职表现之一。

The political and economic cost of these failings has not been lost on China's leaders.

中国领导人也注意到了医疗体系失灵的政治和经济代价。

None of this is to say that China's citizens are unaware of their country's failings and contradictions.

但这一切并不意味着，中国公民看不到自己国家的不足与矛盾。

In interviews and speeches she was a sharp if largely unheeded critic of the West's economic, political and spiritual failings.

虽然她的采访和演讲并不引人注意，但她是西方经济、政治和精神缺陷和过错的尖锐批评者。

Therefore, the assessment of a counterpart's failings should be a large part of the negotiation planning process.

所以，对对手弱点的评估应该是谈判计划过程中的一个重要部分。

But Mr Gayoom's high- handedness seems as much to blame for the failings of the counter-terrorism effort.

但是加尧姆先生的高压统治似乎也同样应该为反恐怖努力的失败而收到谴责。

Hence it is that men are quick to see the faults of others, and yet are often blind to their own failings.

因此人类很快可以看到他人的缺点，却难以发现自己的不足。

How kids spend their money is a hot topic, especially since the recession has cast adults' failings on this front into sharp relief.

孩子们的钱怎么花是个热点话题，尤其是在经济衰退令成年人在这方面做得不对的地方更加凸显出来。