| 单词 | fail |
| 释义 | fail[feil]vi. 失败, 缺乏, 中断, 衰退, 失灵vt. 忘记, 使...失望, 缺乏, 不及格n. 不及格【化】 停车相关词组:fail to dowithout failfail in... fail fail AHD: [f³l] D.J. [fe!l]K.K. [fel]v.（动词） failed,fail.ing,fails v.intr.（不及物动词）1. To prove deficient or lacking; perform ineffectively or inadequately.表现欠佳：证明不足或不够；活动受损或不充足2. To be unsuccessful:失败：不成功：a valiant attempt that failed.虽败犹荣3. To receive an academic grade below the acceptable minimum.不及格：达到的学术等级低于最低限度4. To prove insufficient in quantity or duration; give out:用尽：数量或持续时间证明为不足；用完：The water supply failed during the drought.在干旱期供水不足5. To fall short, as in what is expected of one:未达成：不能达到别人所期望的：failed in her obligations to the family.她对家庭没有尽到责任6. To decline, as in strength or effectiveness:减弱：力量减弱或功能衰退：The patient's heart failed.病人的心跳减弱7. To cease functioning properly:彻底中止运转：The engine failed.引擎彻底停止了运转8. To become bankrupt or insolvent:破产：Our family business failed in 1929.1929年我们家族破产了v.tr.（及物动词）1. To disappoint or prove undependable to:使失望或不可信赖：Our sentries failed us.我们的哨兵令我们失望2. To abandon; forsake:抛弃；放弃：His strength failed him.他丧失了力气3. To omit to perform (an expected duty, for example):遗漏未做：忽略而未能完成（例如，所期望的任务）：“We must . . . hold . . . those horrors up to the light of justice. Otherwise we would fail our inescapable obligation to the victims of Nazism: to remember”(&b{Anthony Lewis})“记住：我们必须将那些惨事交付法庭审判。否则，对遭受法西斯主义迫害的人，我们将无法尽到应尽的责任”(安东尼·刘易斯)4. To leave (something) undone; neglect:疏忽：留下（某事）没做完；疏忽：failed to wash the dishes.忘了洗盘子5. To receive an academic grade below the acceptable minimum in (a course, for example):不及格：达到的学术等级低于能接受的最低限度（如某门课程）：failed algebra twice.代数两次不及格6. To give such a grade of failure to (a student):给（学生）不及格：failed me in algebra.给我代数不及格n.（名词）1. Failure to deliver securities to a purchaser within a specified time.保证失信：未能在特定时间内将保证金交给买主2. Failure to receive the proceeds of a transaction, as in the sale of stock or securities, by a specified date.交割失信：在股票或抵押品售出后，未能在规定日期内办理交接手续习惯用语:without fail With no chance of failure:一定，必定：没有失败的可能：Be here at noon without fail.一定在正午时到这里语源:1. Middle English failen 中古英语 failen 2. from Old French faillir 源自 古法语 faillir 3. from Vulgar Latin *fall&9{ºre} 源自 俗拉丁语 *fall&9{ºre} 4. variant of Latin fallere [to deceive] 拉丁语 fallere的变体 [欺骗] |
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