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的东西，但遭到败。

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，你也会遭到报应的败。

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败，为我们的规划过于宏大，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.

怜的乔拼命想表现得好，她胸中的敌人老想爆发出来，使她遭到败。看来要经过许多年的耐心的努力才能制服它。