fail

英式音标：fail怎么读

美式音标：fail怎么读

词汇归类： CET4,TEM4,GRE,考研,CET6,高频词,基本词汇

近义词： out,lose,be,flunk,unsuccessful

反义词： succeed

fail词义

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vi. 失败，不及格；破产；缺乏；衰退vt. 不及格；使失望；忘记；舍弃n. 不及格n. (Fail)人名；(葡、捷)法伊尔；(法)法伊

词态变化

第三人称单数: fails;过去式: failed;过去分词: failed;现在分词: failing;

中文词源

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双语例句

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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。

fail英文词源

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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.

fail实用场景例句

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Many diets fail because they are boring.: 许多规定饮食因单调乏味都不奏效。

a failing school: 一所失败的学校

She failed to get into art college.: 她未能进入艺术学院。

The song can't fail to be a hit (= definitely will be a hit) .: 这首歌不可能不流行起来。

I failed in my attempt to persuade her.: 我未能说服她。

Tomorrow without fail he would be at the old riverside warehouse.: 明天他一定会在河边的旧仓库里。

On the 30th you must without fail hand in some money for Alex...: 30 日那天你必须替亚历克斯交一些钱。

He attended every meeting without fail.: 他逢会必到。

That's how it was in my day and I fail to see why it should be different now.: 我那时候就是这样的，我搞不懂为什么现在非要弄得不一样。

I lived in fear of failing my end-of-term exams.: 我总是担心期末考试不及格。

...the two men who had failed him during his first year of law school.: 在法学院一年级时让他不及格的两个人

If all else fails, I could always drive a truck.: 如果其他都不行，我总还可以开卡车。

If we did not report what was happening in the country, we would be failing in our duty.: 如果我们没有报道这个国家正在发生的事情，我们就没有尽到自己的责任。

For once, the artist's fertile imagination failed him...: 这位画家丰富的想象力曾一度枯竭。

Their courage failed a few steps short and they came running back.: 还差几步他们却胆怯了，又跑回来了。

In fact many food crops failed because of the drought.: 实际上，因为干旱，很多粮食作物歉收。

So far this year, 104 banks have failed.: 今年到目前为止，已有 104 家银行倒闭。

...a failed hotel business...: 破产的酒店

He was 58, and his health was failing rapidly...: 他 58 岁，身体正在迅速衰老。

Here in the hills, the light failed more quickly...: 在山区这儿，天黑得更快。

We waited twenty-one years, don't fail us now.: 我们等了 21 年了，如今不要让我们失望。

...communities who feel that the political system has failed them.: 对此套政治体制感到失望的群体

Lawyers are accused of failing in their duties to advise clients of their rights...: 律师们被控未尽到告知当事人其正当权利的职责。

The Workers' Party failed to win a single governorship...: 劳工党连一个州长职位也未能赢得。

He failed in his attempt to take control of the company...: 他试图掌控公司，但以失败告终。

We tried to develop plans for them to get along, which all failed miserably...: 我们试图计划让他们好好相处，但均以惨败告终。

He was afraid the revolution they had started would fail...: 他担心他们发起的大变革会遭遇失败。

Some schools fail to set any homework...: 有些学校没有布置任何作业。

He failed to file tax returns for 1982...: 他没有呈报 1982 年的纳税申报单。

The lights mysteriously failed, and we stumbled around in complete darkness...: 灯不知怎么地不亮了，我们在一片黑暗中跌跌撞撞地走着。

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