Fault
[fɔːlt;fɒlt] or [fɔlt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area); 'he served too many double faults'.
(noun.) responsibility for a bad situation or event; 'it was John's fault'.
(noun.) (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.); 'it took much longer to find the fault than to fix it'.
(noun.) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; 'they built it right over a geological fault'; 'he studied the faulting of the earth's crust'.
富兰克林校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Defect; want; lack; default.
(n.) Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
(n.) A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
(n.) A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
(n.) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.
(n.) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
(n.) Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
(v. t.) To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.
(v. t.) To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted.
(v. i.) To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.
編輯:蒂姆
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Defect, blemish, flaw, imperfection, failing.[2]. Misdeed, misdemeanor, offence, trespass, wrong, delinquency, transgression.[3]. Mistake (of judgment), error, indiscretion, slip, lapse.[4]. [Rare.] Default, lack, want.[5]. [Geol.] Dislocation, disturbance of strata.
校對:玛吉
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Defect, error, imperfection, flaw, misdeed, failure, omission, want, drawback
ANT:Sufficiency, correctness, completeness, perfection
埃德加整理
解釋/意思:
n. a failing: error: blemish: imperfection: a slight offence: (geol. min.) a displacement of strata or veins: (tennis) a stroke in which the player fails to serve the ball into the proper place.—adj. Fault′ful (Shak.) full of faults or crimes.—adv. Fault′ily.—n. Fault′iness.—adj. Fault′less without fault or defect.—adv. Fault′lessly.—n. Fault′lessness.—adj. Fault′y imperfect defective: guilty of a fault: blamable.—At fault open to blame: (of dogs) unable to find the scent; Find fault (with) to censure for some defect.
校對:卢埃林
娱乐性解釋/意思:
About the only thing that is often found where it does not exist.
奥尔多手打
例句/造句/用法:
- It is I who have been in fault: I ought to have seen that I could not afford to live in this way. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- And if I don't make his mother subject to me, too, it shall not be my fault. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- For this seems to me nothing but the resuscitation of the devil: when things go wrong it is somebody else's fault. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- She spoke not a word, but stole to bed after her father had left her, like a child ashamed of its fault. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Wine and wassail, he added, gravely casting up his eyes--all the fault of wine and wassail! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- If niggers is quiet, and don't try to get off, they has good times with me; and if they don't, why, it's thar fault, and not mine. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- It's not her fault if everybody don't know it now, growled Trenor, flushed with the struggle of getting into his fur-lined coat. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- As in everything else, it has taken time to overcome the faults of the early trucks. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I must reproach her with her faults, and then--she will throw the plates and dishes in my face! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I am acquainted with my faults. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Yes, I am guilty of those faults, and punished for them every day. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- In other words, the very faults that we noted in the negative, from a picture point of view, automatically right themselves. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Had this charming creature no faults? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- My faults, according to this calculation, are heavy indeed! 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
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