Failed states were once poor almost by definition.

这些衰败的国家曾经都很穷困。

Venezuela is a failed state in every single measure.

从各个方面来说，委内瑞拉都是个失败的国家。

MOST people think they know what a failed state looks like.

大多数人自以为懂得何谓失败的政权。

But not all failed or fragile states look like Somalia.

但并非失败或脆弱的政权就该这样。

The problem is that it's a failed state at the moment.

问题是，海地目前处于一种失败的状态。

Nigeria is not a failed state, but neither is it a successful one.

尼日利亚不是一个失败的国家，但也不是一个成功的国家。

In 2009 the Pentagon had given warning that Mexico could become a “failed state”.

2009年，美国五角大楼（Pentagon）警示称，墨西哥可能成为“失败国家”。

And with CICIG gone, I think we really have a high risk of being a failed state.

但在反对有罪不罚国际委员会撤出后，我们陷入成为失败国家的高风险中。

North Korea's economic underperformance is remarkable for a country that is neither a failed state nor at war, he says.

朝鲜经济既没处在动荡中, 也没处于战乱中，但经济却萎靡不振，这实在太不寻常。

Some of them are at war, and a few are truly failed states.

其中一些处于战争状态，还有一些是真正的失败国家。

They're from a failed state -- a country in chaos.

他们来自一个失败而混乱的国家。

Afghanistan, 20 years on, a failed war with the Taliban returning to powerand a failed state.

20 年后的阿富汗，一场失败的战争，塔利班重新掌权，一个失败的国家。

The country's auditor general has reported that the state owned oil company, the NNPC has failed to hand over sixteen billion dollars to the government.

该国审计长通报国有石油公司NNPC未能将160亿美元上交给政府。

In the first case of its kind, the victim's mother says ferry company did not properly train staff while the state failed to regulate the ferry industry.

在类似的第一宗案件中，这名受害者的母亲表示，客轮公司没有正确地训练职员，而国家没有监管好客轮行业。

Al-Shabaab means " the youth" in Arabic, and it's a group that's risen out of the chaos of the failed state of Somalia.

青年党在阿拉伯语中的意思是“青年”，它是一个从失败的索马里国家的混乱中崛起的团体。

Until we recognize that what is needed to close the gap is far more, then we are still at risk of having failed states, and generating climate migration.

除非我们认识到缩小差距所需要的远不止这些，否则我们仍然面临失败国家和产生气候迁移的风险。

Yet strikingly, some 15 of the 56 countries on the bank's lower-middle income list (ie, over a quarter) also appear on the list of fragile and failed states maintained by the OECD, a rich- country club.

然而令人惊讶的是，在56个收入属于中等偏低的国家（超过四分之一的国家属于这一行列）里，大约有15 个被经合组织（一个富国俱乐部）列为政权不稳。