| 51. | 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。
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| 52. | Cats never fail to fascinate human beings. |
| 猫总能引起人们的极大兴趣。
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| 53. | 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。
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| 54. | When lights fuse, furniture gets rickety, pipes get clogged, or vacuum cleaners fail to operate, some woman assume that their husbands will somehow put things right. |
| 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，有些妻子认为丈夫总有办法。
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| 55. | A large number of people tend to live under the illusion that they had completed their education when they finished their schooling. Obviously, they seem to fail to take into account the basic fact that a person's education is a most important aspect of his life. |
| 许多人存在这样的误解，认为离开学校就意味着结束了他们的教育。显然，他们忽视了教育是人生重要部分这一基本事实。
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| 56. | But what these people fail to see is that international tourism may bring about a disastrous impact on our environment and local history. |
| 但是这些人忽视了国际旅游可能会给当地环境和历史造成的灾难性的影响。
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| 57. | Freshmen often get lost on campus; fail to find the way to dormitory or library. |
| 新生常常在校园迷路，不知道去宿舍或图书馆该怎么走。
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| 58. | People seem to fail to take into account the fact that education does not end with graduation. |
| 人们似乎忽视了教育不应该随着毕业而结束这一事实。
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| 59. | I fail to see why you find it so amusing. |
| 我不明白你们为什么对这件事感到如此好笑。
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| 60. | He got a fail in history and passes in other subjects. |
| 他历史考试不及格，其他科目都通过了。
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