The story is one of scores in To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure, a book that is at once a love letter to engineering and a paean to its breakdowns.

这个故事是《原谅设计：理解失败》中的一个片段。这本书既是给工程学献上的情书，也是对其工程故障的赞歌。

A song of praise or joy; a paean.

颂歌赞颂的歌或欢乐的歌；感恩歌。

The novel is a paean to the end of empire.

该小说奏响了一个帝国落寞的赞歌。

Paean of pioneers-Reading Willa Cather's o!

拓荒者的赞歌——读薇拉·凯瑟的啊！

She struck up the first paean on the grand piano.

她开始在那架大钢琴上演奏起第一首颂歌。

In this regard, Gandhi's paean to the village was spot-on.

在这方面，甘地对乡村的赞美恰如其分。

It also makes it a paean to his homeland of Scotland and its people.

这也使得它赞歌，以自己的祖国苏格兰和它的人民。

The artist hopes the audience to hear the paean for life from the painting.

我愿观众能在作品中感到因为对生命的感动而唱的赞歌。

The lingering echo of the dashing waters are a paean of praise to and an expression of love for China's landscape.

在人们耳际荡起滔滔势的余响，表达了对华夏河山的赞美和热爱。

Although it is given in the third person singular, the text and the commentary take it to mean a paean of joy uttered by the Buddha.

虽然是第三人称单数，文本和评注中把它当作佛所说的狂喜之歌。

DCM concluded his presentation with a humble paean to the moon, accompanied by the soft roll of a timpani to symbolize the march of time.

DCM的演讲以谦卑的月亮赞歌，并伴随象征着时间前进的轻柔击鼓而结束。

At the end of 1990s, the combination of new-generation canvas, movie and documentary photography played a paean of realism arts of our age.

90年代后起的新生代油画、新生代电影和纪实摄影，它们交织在一起，共同奏响了我们这个时代现实主义艺术的凯歌。

"I'm supposed to write a paean to Spring for my creative writing course, but all this rain just makes me depressed and uninspired," sighed Jessica.

“我应该为我的创作课写一首赞美春天的诗，但是这么过分的雨使我沮丧且毫无灵感。”杰西卡叹息一声。

My response, which filled three double-sided pages, was an extravagant paean to her calm beauty, the sweetness of her eyes, the perfection of her figure, etc.

我的回信洋洋洒洒写了三页(两面都写了字)信纸，对她沉静的美，甜美的眼睛，完美的身材等大大赞扬了一翻。

The book was a paean to the old agrarian values which, he claimed, were part of Norway’s soul. At the same time, he acknowledged that there was no going back.

该作是他对旧时农耕时期价值的赞誉，他认为农耕时期是挪威灵魂的一部分，同时他也意识到旧岁已逝，无法再回头了。

The book's subtitle is the less engaging “A Study of Economics as if People Mattered”, but it is more true to its content. For the book is not a paean to smallness.

书的副标题——“一本把人当回事的经济学研究”虽然没有那么引人注目，但是更贴近文章的内容，因为这本书不是赞美小的事物的。

Although critics and scholars differ on what Hieronymus Bosch depicted in the Garden of Earthly Delights, it was definitely not a paean to self-indulgence or drugs.

虽然评论家和学者有什么不同的描绘海欧纳莫斯博世在人世间欢乐花园，它肯定不是一个赞歌，以自我放纵或吸毒。

Next week he launches “No Apology”, a 323-page paean to American greatness and a thinly disguised presidential manifesto ending with a 64-point “Agenda for a Free and Strong America”.

下周他的新书“无可辩解”将出版，这本书长达323页，是对伟大美国的赞歌。 其中包括一份朴实无华的竞选声明，这份声明最后列举了64条要点，以期建立一个强大自由美国。

Meanwhile Mr Steele’s big idea, to restore the party’s fortunes by broadening its appeal, has not got much beyond a paean to famous black, Latino and female Republicans of yore on the RNC’s website.

同时，斯蒂尔想通过增强自己号召力来修复党内资金缺口的算盘并不如意，RNC网站上对昔日著名黑人、拉丁美人及女性共和党人的赞美远远超过对他自己的赞美。

In the author's opinion, this poem opened up a panorama first from the paean for human childhood, then to the middle-age meditation and inquiry, and finally to the loneliness in the declining years.

笔者认为全诗向读者展示的是一幅从对人类童年的讴歌，到中年的沉思与叩问，再到暮年的孤寂与苍凉的全景图。

And it becomes clear that it is also a prose paean to the accumulated detritus of an old society with a well-recorded history and a keen interest (some would say an obsession) in preserving its past.

你就会清晰地发现它也是一首对旧社会点滴叙述的散文颂歌，历史记载完好，热衷(有人说这是沉迷)于保存过去。