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The Pope had also said throughout his pontificate that one of his greatest dreams was to visit Russia, but this never occurred.

教宗还说，他任职期间一直有个最大的梦想，就是访问俄国，可惜未能实现。

We intended to go to the pop concert,but the heavy rain frustrated us.

我们打算去听流行音乐会，但因大雨而未能成行。

By aid of mis-translations and marginal notes he sought to popularise his views on Faith and Justification, and to win favour with the people by opening to them the word of God, which he asserted falsely had been closed against them for centuries.

利用误翻和边角注，他得以宣扬自己关于信仰和因信称义的观点。他伪称数百年来，上帝的话语一直未能向民众宣讲，而现在他打开了方便之门，因此受到了民众的拥戴。

The challenge has been perfecting the portability factor that our competitors haven't been able to do.

面临的挑战已经完善的便携因素，我们的竞争对手一直未能这样做。

All this is bankrupting the postal service, which does not receive any government subsidies.

所有这些问题都在逼迫邮政服务机构的破产。而这些都是丝毫未能得到政府补贴的机构。

Notes receivable, IOUs, postdate checks, and uncollected customers' check--returned by the bank stamped "NSF"-- are not included in the accountants' definition of cash.

应收票据、欠条、远期支票以及银行盖上"存款不足"的戳记后退回的未能收讫的顾客支票，不能包括在会计上所称的现金定义中。

Of note, alcohol consumption did not appear to affect two-hour postprandial glucose levels.

值得注意的是，饮酒未能影响到餐后2小时的血糖水平。

While deriving the effective potential by calculating the elastic scattering amplitude between quark-antiquark,one would encounter the ordering problem.

由动量空间计算得到的夸克和反夸克之间的散射振幅推导坐标空间等效势时，总要出现算符排序问题，这是一个量子力学中长期存在而又未能得到很好解决的重要问题。

He answered by telling them what his predecessor had failed to do.

他却告诉代表们他的前任未能做的事情。

Pressman, it was the most popular movie of the year but did not go on to win an Academy Award.

这是一部当年最受欢迎的电影，但却未能获得奥斯卡奖。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。