Fails

例句/造句/用法:

• 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.
• If she fails us, isn't there what you call the Gazette? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• It rarely fails to break perfectly true. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
• But the trooper fails to fasten the brooch. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• You _talk_ if anybody dies suddenly; you _talk_ if a fire breaks out; you _talk_ if a mill-owner fails; you _talk_ if he's murdered. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
• The merely practical man loses much by not knowing the backgrou nd of his activities; the mere theorist fails by mistaking the shadow for the substance. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
• You mean that Sir James tries and fails. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• Now, he resumed, when a further period had elapsed, if she fails to come, I shall hate and scorn her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
• At most he learns simply to improve his existing technique; he does not get new points of view; he fails to experience any intellectual companionship. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• You couldn't find the spot to which these people had repaired,' said Monks, 'but where friendship fails, hatred will often force a way. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
• What is to be done with a human being that can be governed only by the lash,--_that_ fails,--it's a very common state of things down here! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
• Where it fails of its end, it is only an imperfect means; and therefore can never acquire any merit from that end. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
• If it fails with her, my power is gone. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
• He refuses to make any abatement, because his threat is, that if he fails with me, he will come to you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• The increase of demand, besides, though in the beginning it may sometimes raise the price of goods, never fails to lower it in the long-run. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• If she goes NOW, and if he fails, it will only confirm the general impression: which isn't by any means peculiar to Lefferts, by the way. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
• Where there is energy to command well enough, obedience never fails. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
• It fails most just where it thinks it is succeeding--in getting a preparation for the future. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• His will is the mountain stream, which may indeed be turned for a little space aside by the rock, but fails not to find its course to the ocean. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Mother's bar'ls is like dat ar widder's, Mas'r George was reading 'bout, in de good book,--dey never fails, said Mose, aside to Peter. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
• And if he fails, then he will use force and plunder them. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
• Still, if it fails--' 'And if it fails,' said she, advancing, and laying her hand on his arm, her eyes full of eager light. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
• She has such a passion for it, I often tell her if everything else fails, she can be a horsebreaker, and get her living so. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
• Artichoke professes his readiness so to do, endeavours to do so, but fails. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.

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