They attempted to pillage Hungary for what  they needed and were soundly defeated.

他们试图掠夺匈牙利以获取他们需要东西，但遭到彻底失败。

If you curse someone and take them out, you'll also be defeated in retribution.

如果你咒骂某人并将其除掉，你也会遭到失败。

To think more flexibly entails a risk-we could fail and be ridiculed.

更灵活地思考意味着一种风险——我们能会失败并遭到嘲笑。

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，这是因为我们规划过于宏大，而又根本没有时间去实施。

Poor Jo tried desperately to be good, but her bosom enemy was always ready to flame up and defeat her, and it took years of patient effort to subdue it.

怜乔拼命想表现得好，是她胸中敌人老是想爆发出来，使她遭到失败。看来要经过许多年耐心努力才能制服它。