This handout describes some ways in which arguments often fail to do the things listed above; these failings are called fallacies.

本文介绍了一些论证中往往造成背离上述几条的问题形式；这些问题即是“逻辑谬误”。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Whatever the Fed's failings , it is the only economic player left in Washington.

不管美联储有什么缺点，华盛顿在经济方面也只有它可用了。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

Whatever his personal failings , Mr Strauss-Kahn was an outstanding head of the IMF.

不管他个人有什么劣迹，卡恩仍称得上是IMF一位杰出的领导人。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

Given George Bush's failings , the Republicans face an uphill challenge, but they have given themselves a chance.

布什内外交困的窘迫境地使共和党阵营面临着一个更大的挑战，但他们还是为自己争取到了一线生机。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

Partly thanks to such failings , the economy has tanked, with GDP shrinking in 2009 by more than in any other big European country.

部分由于这些失败，使得乌克兰经济受到重挫，2009年GDP缩水程度高于其他任何一个欧洲大国。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

There are two failings of risk management.

从风险管理角度说，摩根士丹利有两处败笔。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

But how well do the provisions of the bill respond to the regulatory failings in the US that the crisis revealed?

但对于本次危机暴露的美国监管缺陷，该法案条款作出的回应有多好？

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

Yet on closer inspection, these new hybrids suffer from many of the failings of the old.

但是仔细研究后，会发现这种新的混合体深受过去失败资本的影响。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

But today's crisis tells us of the failings of a euphoric capitalism.

但这次危机让我们看到了欣快的资本主义的缺陷。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

But those failings say as much about distortions in China's markets and shortcomings in its laws as about the companies themselves.

但这些不足不但揭示了它们自身的问题，也反映了中国市场的扭曲及其法律方面的缺陷。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

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。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

The second priority is that we agree a timetable for measures that will clean up the failings in our banking system.

第二个重中之重是我们同意对各种举措设立一个时间表，清理我们银行体系中的问题。

属类：英汉句库-cn.reuters.com-

Fortunately for Western producers, the failings of Chinese lorries serve as a useful barrier to entry in other markets.

对西方制造商来说幸运的是，中国造卡车的缺陷成了一道阻碍其进入其他卡车销售市场的屏障。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

Nor are charter schools a panacea for the failings of some of the most deprived inner city areas.

对于一些教学程度最差的内陆城市地区而言，特许学校也并非解决公立学校系统失败的万灵丹。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

Individual countries have specific failings of their own.

各个国家均有不同的失败。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Few thought that he was the product of the system's failings .

很少人觉察到科普兰是社会体系缺陷的产物。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Or else it might expose the country's economic failings , bringing in an unbiddable tidal wave of change from outside.

或者它也可能暴露这国家经济上的失败，引发来自外界不可阻挡的巨浪。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

A few weeks ago Mr Toledo was comfortably ahead in the polls. But he has come under fire for his personal failings .

几周前，托莱多先生的支持率明显领先，但其因个人缺点而遭到严厉攻击。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

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。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

Its drive to open new kinds of schools is not yet matched by rigorous inspections to help weaker schools target their failings .

建立新型学校的动力和为帮助普通学校达到目标的严格考察并不相符。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

Using self-interest as an unquestioned premise has serious consequences for inferring causes of failings and for prescribing remedies.

将自利作为一个毋庸置疑的前提对于失败的推断性原因或预设的解决办法。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

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。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

The failings of the financial system have been the strongest argument against globalisation and the capitalist system.

金融体系的失灵是反对全球化和资本主义体系最有力论据。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

And though Mr Obama is willing to admit his country's failings , he is quite ruthless about blowing its enemies to scraps.

尽管奥巴马先生乐于承认国家的缺陷，但是他十分残忍的将敌人击得粉碎。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

Despite Mr Kan's obvious failings , nobody relishes a power vacuum.

尽管菅直人有明显的缺点，但是没人希望出现权力真空。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

For all its failings , the US remains a more attractive beacon for billions of people worldwide looking for a better life.

尽管美国存在种种问题，但它对世界各地寻觅更好生活的数十亿人来说，仍是一个更具吸引力的灯塔。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

Long practice has made Arab rulers expert at explaining their failings away.

经过长期训练，阿拉伯执政者们在解释他们的失败时可以说是巧舌如簧。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

For now, the illusion of tighter immigration controls confers domestic political benefits, even as its failings are ignored.

就目前而言，盲目地幻想对移民采取更严格的控制能符合各国的政治利益，即使要对此举的错误付出代价。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

It includes kissing, foreplay, nudity and sex scenes, and a discussion of the merits of sex, sexual failings and homosexuality.

剧情包括接吻、性挑逗、裸体和做爱场面，并涉及一场有关性的价值、能力衰退及同性恋等问题的讨论。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

Given the government's failings , it is hardly surprising if Pakistanis take a dim view of democracy.

考虑到政府的失败，如果巴基斯坦人认为民主的前景悲观暗淡则不应惊讶。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-