fail是什么意思_fail怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

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"

be unsuccessful;"Where do today"s public schools fail?"
"The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"

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"

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"

be unable;"I fail to understand your motives"

judge unacceptable;"The teacher failed six students"

fail to get a passing grade;"She studied hard but failed nevertheless"
"Did I fail the test?"

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"

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"

prove insufficient;"The water supply for the town failed after a long drought"

get worse;"Her health is declining"

中英词源

fail 失败

来自拉丁语fallo, 欺骗，陷落，词源同fallacy, false, fault. 进一步来自PIE*ghwel, 欺骗。引申词义被骗，失败。

fail: fail: [13] Fail, fallacy [15], fallible, false, and fault all come ultimately from the same source – the Latin verb fallere. This originally meant ‘deceive’, but it developed semantically to ‘deceive someone’s hopes, disappoint someone’, and in its Vulgar Latin descendant *fallīre this meaning had progressed to ‘be defective, fail’. English acquired the word via Old French faillir. Its Anglo-Norman form, failer, came to be used as a noun, and is the source of English failure [17].
=> faliacy, fallible, false, fault
fail (v.): c. 1200, "be unsuccessful in accomplishing a purpose;" also "cease to exist or to function, come to an end;" early 13c. as "fail in expectation or performance," from Old French falir "be lacking, miss, not succeed; run out, come to an end; err, make a mistake; be dying; let down, disappoint" (11c., Modern French faillir), from Vulgar Latin *fallire, from Latin fallere "to trip, cause to fall;" figuratively "to deceive, trick, dupe, cheat, elude; fail, be lacking or defective." Related: Failed; failing.

Replaced Old English abreoðan. From c. 1200 as "be unsuccessful in accomplishing a purpose;" also "cease to exist or to function, come to an end;" early 13c. as "fail in expectation or performance." From mid-13c. of food, goods, etc., "to run short in supply, be used up;" from c. 1300 of crops, seeds, land. From c. 1300 of strength, spirits, courage, etc., "suffer loss of vigor; grow feeble;" from mid-14c. of persons. From late 14c. of material objects, "break down, go to pieces."
fail (n.): late 13c., "failure, deficiency" (as in without fail), from Old French faile "deficiency," from falir (see fail (v.)). The Anglo-French form of the verb, failer, also came to be used as a noun, hence failure.

词态变化

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过去式 failed;
过去分词 failed;
现在分词 failing;
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权威造句

1. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.: 努力过，失败过，没关系，屡战屡败，屡败屡战，每一次失败都比上一次更好。

2. Many of Britain"s beaches fail to meet minimum standards of cleanliness.: 英国许多海滩连最起码的卫生标准都达不倒。

3. The various elements of the novel fail to cohere.: 这部小说的各部分之间缺乏连贯性。

4. Those who fail incline to blame the world for their failure.: 那些失败者往往将他们的失败归咎于社会。

5. This magnificent church cannot fail to stop you in your tracks.: 这座宏伟的教堂一定会让你止步赞叹。

近反义词

fall down

fall through

flop

flunk

default

neglect

相似短语

fail to 未能…未完成…

fail in 在...上失败,变弱

not fail to 务必,必定

fail of 不能获得,达不到,缺乏…

fail to do sth 未能做某事,没有做到…

without fail adv.必定,无疑,确然,务必

fail address 故障地址，失效地址

fail in tension 拉力破坏

epic fail 惨败Complete and total failure when success should have been reasonably easy to attain.People say

sync fail 同步失效

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