fail

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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

发音

US /feɪl/
IN /fel/
其它 /fel/
IN /fɛl/
其它 /fɛl/
IN /fɛjl/
其它 /fɛjl/

词形变化

fails 复数 fail'd failed faileth failing fails 三单 fails failing 现在分词 failed 过去式 failed 过去分词 failest failedst 过去式 faileth 三单 failed 复数 more fail 比较级 most fail 最高级

别名

faile fayle feal

教材释义与例句

动词

失败，不及格；破产；缺乏；衰退

to not succeed in achieving something

动词

不及格；使失望；忘记；舍弃

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    A failing grade in an academic examination.

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    A failure (something incapable of success).

    美国 可数 俚语 不可数
  4. 4.

    Poor quality; substandard workmanship.

    俚语 不可数 可数

    The project was full of fail.

  5. 1.

    A piece of turf cut from grassland.

v. A2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    To be unsuccessful.

    失败

    不及物

    Throughout my life, I have always failed.

  2. 2.

    Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)

    及物

    The truck failed to start.

  3. 3.

    To neglect.

    及物

    The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors.

  4. 4.

    Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.

    故障

    不及物

    After running five minutes, the engine failed.

  5. 5.

    To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.

    及物

    I've failed my parents many times growing up.

  6. 6.

    To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.

    及物/不及物

    I failed English last year.

  7. 7.

    To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.

    及物

    The professor failed me because I did not complete any of the course assignments.

  8. 8.

    To miss attaining; to lose.

    废旧 及物
  9. 9.

    To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.

    The crops failed last year.

  10. 10.

    To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.

    古体
  11. 11.

    To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.

    古体
  12. 12.

    To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.

    古体

    A sick man fails.

  13. 13.

    To perish; to die; used of a person.

    废旧
  14. 14.

    To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

    废旧
  15. 15.

    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.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Unsuccessful; inadequate; unacceptable in some way.

    美国 俚语

词汇关系

动词

同义词 10

go die break bomb betray neglect flunk break down give out go wrong

反义词 3

pass manage succeed

上位词 10

stop move end change act finish judge disappoint cease alter

下位词 10

miss lose fall blow bomb crash spoil choke bollocks founder

近义相关 10

go die break pass bomb exit choke perish croak expire

相关短语

fail-safe n. 自动防故障装置 a. 自动防故障装置的 [计] 故障保险 fail over fail at life fail and divot fail dyke fail dykes fail upwards fail of 不能获得,达不到,缺乏… fail whale fail whales fail fast fail safe 有故障安全装置 fail out fail upward

词源

Inherited from Middle English failen, borrowed from Old French falir, from Vulgar Latin *fallire, alteration of Latin fallere (“to deceive, disappoint”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰāl- (“to lie, deceive”) or Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷʰh₂el- (“to stumble”). Compare Alemannic German fääle (“to lack”), Cimbrian béelan, véelan (“to fail”), veln (“to be absent, missing”), Dutch falen, feilen (“to fail, miss”), German fallieren, fehlen (“to fail, miss, lack”), Danish fejle (“to fail, err”), Swedish fallera (“to fail, break, malfunction”), Spanish fallar (“to fail, miss”).

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