Fail
[feɪl] or [fel]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) get worse; 'Her health is declining'.
(verb.) stop operating or functioning; 'The engine finally went'; 'The car died on the road'; 'The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town'; 'The coffee maker broke'; 'The engine failed on the way to town'; 'her eyesight went after the accident'.
(verb.) prove insufficient; 'The water supply for the town failed after a long drought'.
(verb.) disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake; 'His sense of smell failed him this time'; 'His strength finally failed him'; 'His children failed him in the crisis'.
(verb.) become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close; 'The toy company went bankrupt after the competition hired cheap Mexican labor'; 'A number of banks failed that year'.
(verb.) fail to get a passing grade; 'She studied hard but failed nevertheless'; 'Did I fail the test?'.
(verb.) judge unacceptable; 'The teacher failed six students'.
(verb.) be unsuccessful; 'Where do today's public schools fail?'; 'The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably'.
(verb.) fail to do something; leave something undone; 'She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib'; 'The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account'.
(verb.) be unable; 'I fail to understand your motives'.
(verb.) fall short in what is expected; 'She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law'; 'We must not fail his obligation to the victims of the Holocaust'.
錄入:万斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail.
(v. i.) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.
(v. i.) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
(v. i.) To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.
(v. i.) To perish; to die; -- used of a person.
(v. i.) To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation.
(v. i.) To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
(v. i.) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
(v. i.) To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
(v. t.) To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
(v. t.) To miss of attaining; to lose.
(v. i.) Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.
(v. i.) Death; decease.
厄纳校對
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. [1]. Fall short, come short, be insufficient, be deficient, be wanting.[2]. Decline, sink, decay, wane, fade, give out.[3]. Cease, disappear, become extinct, be wanting.[4]. Miss, miscarry, be unsuccessful, be frustrated, end in smoke, come to nothing, fall still-born, flash in the pan, miss fire, miss stays, fall to the ground.[5]. Omit, neglect.[6]. Break, become insolvent, become bankrupt, suspend payment.
v. a. Disappoint, be wanting to, not be sufficient for, not answer the expectation of.
n. [Used only in the expression without fail.] Omission, neglect, failure, delinquency.
伊恩校對
同義詞及反義詞:
[See ALLAY]
SYN:Fall, miss, miscarry, fall_short, trip, lose
ANT:Succeed, exceed, surpass, excel, achieve, abound, yield
編輯:西尔维亚
解釋/意思:
n. a turf sod.—n. Fail′-dike (Scot.) a turf-wall.
v.i. to fall short or be wanting (with in): to fall away: to decay: to die: to prove deficient under trial examination pressure &c.: to miss: to be disappointed or baffled: to be unable to pay one's debts.—v.t. to be wanting to: not to be sufficient for: to leave undone omit: to disappoint or desert any one:—pr.p. fail′ing; pa.p. failed.—n. (Shak.) failure.—p.adj. Failed decayed worn out: bankrupt.—n. Fail′ing a fault weakness: a foible.—prep. in default of.—n. Fail′ure a falling short or cessation: omission: decay: bankruptcy.—Fail of to come short of accomplishing any purpose; Without fail infallibly.
錄入:曼蒂
例句/造句/用法:
- I shall not fail, _Deo volente_, said he. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Can anybody fail to make the inference what the practical result will be? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- He continued to bet on his own play, but began often to fail. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It would have been shameful to fail after spending so much time and money, when everyone knew that you could do well. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- And the experiment must not be tried; I tell you it would fail. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Shirley's expedients did not fail her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Sometimes their feet failed them, and they sank together in a heap; they were then propped up with the monitors' high stools. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Nay, he appeared so much otherwise, that his daughter's courage failed. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Matthew, sceptic and scoffer, had already failed to subscribe a prompt belief in that pain about the heart. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- As the idea of citizenship failed and faded before the new occasions, there remained no inner, that is to say no real, unity in the system at all. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He succeeded, where Taft failed, in preventing that drought of invention which officialism brings. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The crusade saved the principality of Antioch for a time, but failed to retake Jerusalem. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- His ambition was to restore the empire of Jengis Khan as he conceived it, a project in which he completely failed. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The hearty old landlord was trying to look very cheerful and unconcerned, but failing signally in the attempt. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- She seemed to be more soured and put out than distressed, by failing to find any traces of her daughter in these parts. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It was this intensely interesting side of bee life that attracted the attention of a clergyman in failing health, forced to seek out-of-door occupation, in the early forties. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- We were failing under the accumulated fatigue of days and days of ceaseless marching. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- We have seen the Roman Republic wrecked, and here we see the church failing in its world mission very largely through ineffective electoral methods. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- You have possibly had other guns in reserve in case there should be several tigers, or in the unlikely supposition of your own aim failing you. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Upon the whole, it was a comfortable winter to her; for though it brought no William to England, the never-failing hope of his arrival was worth much. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- We have an open carriage outside, and as you would no doubt like to see the place before the light fails, we might talk it over as we drive. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- History fails to relate a great deal about the mechanical detail of the Pennington model, but it is said to have made a very creditable performance in exhibition. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- If it fails on its merits, he doesn't worry or fret about it, but, on the contrary, regards it as a useful fact learned; remains cheerful and tries something else. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The ordinary course of action fails to give adequate stimulus to emotion and imagination. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The artist studies the progress of his own attempts to see what succeeds and what fails. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- They take with them a quantity of food, and when the commissary department fails they skirmish, as Jack terms it in his sinful, slangy way. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The conception always precedes the understanding; and where the one is obscure, the other is uncertain; where the one fails, the other must fail also. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
手打:玛吉