A WORD, A WORLD
fail
释义
- v.
- 失败；不及格；倒闭；破产
- n.
- （考试）不及格
- 网络
- 衰退；不合格；不能
展开详细释义
v.
1.失败,失了风,没过关;行不通;不及格
2.失败,不及格; (判断)错误,不中目标
3.(考试)失败,不及格;〔口语〕(考试人)不录取(考生),把(考生)评为不及格
4.不能,不(做),忘记
5.不,并不;不能;不成立
6.使失望;辜负;无助于,丢弃;不履行,玩忽
7.(分量)不足,缺乏; (作物)歉收
8.倒闭,破产
9.(后嗣)全无,绝
10.(健康等)衰退,衰弱,停止作用;(水)断,风(停)
n.
1.失败,失误;不及格;不及格者
2.【商业】(期货交割)失期
adj.
1.没有
2.故障
3.错误
4.无效的
5.末能
6.受损
7.溃决
词形变化
第三人称单数：fails 现在分词：failing 过去式：failed
常用短语 7 组
- fail in
- 失败；缺少
- without fail
- 务必；必定，无疑
- never fail to
- 一定会...
- fail to do
- 失败；未做成
- fail safe
- 故障保护；失效安全
- fail to resolve
- 解决未果
- words fail me
- 说不出话来
在例句中理解 37 句
Please look the matter up at once and see to it that the goods are delivered without fail.
请立即核查此事，务必确保货物一定发运。
He said it was inevitable that some cutting-edge firms would fail but that over all, the investments would prove worthwhile.
他说，某些尖端科技公司失败是不可避免的，但是总体来说，投资是值得的。
Police and prosecutors often fail to follow Home Office guidelines, said the watchdogs for the police and Crown Prosecution Service.
警方与检察官常常未能遵守内政部的规定，负责监督警方与「皇家检察服务局」的团体说。
The specially equipped boxes may take a bit of getting used to, but the weary traveller cannot fail to be impressed.
这种（机场）专门配备的“盒子”可能需要人们花点时间适应，但它对疲惫的旅客不能不留下深刻的印象。
However, I fail to live up to it, performance is so poor . . . I really do not want to let them be so disappointed, so sad, it tears.
可是，我是那么不争气，成绩那么差……我想真的不应该让他们那么失望，那么伤心，那么落泪。
People in today's world seem to fail to take into account the fact that the dreams do not end with waking up.
当今的人们似乎都忽视了梦想不该随着醒来而结束的事实。
Several "gold fish" swimming above the tents, are the main focus of the children who try to catch one but fail.
几条“金鱼”游过帐蓬，它们成为孩子们的焦点，有心钓上一条，怎么不上钩？
Information is not enough to topple regimes, but in the end, regimes that fight the openness of information are doomed to fail, he said.
“信息不足以推翻政权，但最终，那些打击信息公开化的政权注定会走向失败”，他说。
If it scares you to death that you will inevitably might fail, you know it's real love.
如果你担心你可能会不可避免地失败，那你知道这就是真正的热爱。
What you may fail to understand is the speed with which democracies can shift their attitude from the open hand to the clenched fist.
但你也许未能理解的是，民主国家的态度能快速地从张开的手转变为攥紧的拳头。
Once, after Levy's health began to fail, Madoff arranged for a helicopter to transport him for medical treatment.
在利维的健康状况开始下降之后，有一回麦道夫安排了一架直升机送他去治疗。
A recent Treasury research paper admitted that there was no fail-safe method to estimate the correct value of a currency.
最近财政部的一份研究论文承认，在评估一种货币的正确价值时，并没有一种万无一失的方法。
My good master Bates dying in two years after, and I having few friends, my business began to fail.
两年以后贝茨恩师不幸逝世，我没有什么朋友，所以生意渐渐萧条。
My life began when I found you and I thought it had ended when I fail to save you.
我的生命，因邂逅你而开始，因无法挽留你而终结。
The bank, it seems, should be placing bigger bets with the public subsidy it gets in the form of its too-important-to-fail guarantee.
看起来，巴克莱在“太重要而不能倒掉”的理由下获得的公共补贴，似乎应该更多地拿去冒险。
The SNB implicitly referred to the possibility of a collapse of one of the large banks in its analysis of the "too big to fail" problem.
瑞士国家银行在其对规模太大而会倒闭这个问题使，内部参考了其中一家大规模银行的倒闭的可能性。
If you fail to pay back the money, friend may turn out to be enemies and your friendship will be totally damaged.
如果你最终不能还钱，朋友可能会反目成仇，而你们的友谊也会完全被毁。
The fact. . . transformed his character thoroughly The fact that his health began to fail transformed his character thoroughly.
他的健康状况开始恶化，这彻底改变了他的性格。
If he's got an ounce of common sense, he'll realise that this project is bound to fail.
如果他还有一点正常的判断力的话，他就应该意识到这项工程注定要失败的。
If it were to fail, it would be the largest U. S. bank to collapse in 2009.
如果它倒闭了，那么2009年将是美国最大银行崩溃的时候。
There was nothing strange in the writer's thinking so; but it did not fail to gain the appreciation of the readers of the time as well.
作者有如此想法并不值得奇怪；可是，当时它也不是没能获得读者的赞赏。
Looking back, I still think Lehman should have been allowed to fail, but I was wrong not to grasp that it had to be done in an orderly way.
回想起来，我还是认为政府应该让雷曼倒闭，但我错在没有领悟到这需要以一种有序的方式来进行。
I do not see any other explanation of how one can get so near to a great discovery and yet fail at the last, and rather small, step.
我还没有见过任何其它解释来说明一个人如何会离一个重大发现如此之近而最终与之失之交臂，即便仅仅差一小步。
Don't be so pessimistic that for a moment, even a split moment, you fail to realize the thousands of things you have to be thankful for.
不要太过悲观，因为在一瞬间，哪怕是电闪雷鸣的一瞬间，你都会忽略那成千上万值得我们去感恩的人或事物。
But Bear Stearns was bailed out, creating a perception that if it was "too big to fail" , so were all its competitors.
但贝尔斯登获得了纾困，造成这样一种观感：如果贝尔斯登“太大而不能倒”，它的竞争者亦然。
The careless, the slow, the unobservant, the lazy fail to see it, or clutch at it when it has gone.
粗心大意、行动迟缓、精神涣散、好吃懒做的人都无法看到机会的到来，在它离去的时候也无法抓住。
Another way, in which life could fail to develop to an intelligent stage, would be if an asteroid or comet were to collide with the planet.
从另一方面考虑，生命未能发展到具有智能的阶段，是否可能是小行星或彗星与行星发生了碰撞。
There was hope that this year the rains would not fail, and that somehow they would come through.
人们希望今年的雨会如期而至，他们就能顺利渡过困难。
And to round the year off, the attempt to achieve a global climate-change agreement will fail at a mega-summit in Copenhagen.
到年底，试图达成全球气候变化协议也将在哥本哈根峰会上失败。
If you think you'll fail you are likely to hold you self back or even trip yourself up (sometimes unconsciously).
还有那种对自我实现的预信感。如果你觉得自己会失败，就很可能裹足不前甚至作茧自缚了（有时是无意识的）。
It looks likely that the peace talks will fail.
看来和平谈判可能会失败。
Millions of people have tried to quit smoking and failed miserably (= been completely unsuccessful ).
数百万人戒过烟，都以惨败告终。
his efforts to save his failing marriage
他挽救自己濒危婚姻的努力
If all else fails, you may be advised to have an operation.
要是其他方法都不见效的话，恐怕你还是动手术的好。
The brakes on my bike failed half way down the hill.
我骑自行车下山到中途刹车失灵了。
The government are failing in their duty to protect people. ＃
该政府未能尽到保护人民的责任。
The government are failing in their duty to protect people.
该政府未能尽到保护人民的责任。