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单词 failure
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failure
(feɪljəʳ )
Word forms: failures
1. uncountable noun B2
Failure is a lack of success in doing or achieving something, especially in relation to a particular activity.
This policy is doomed to failure.
Three attempts on the British 200-metre record also ended in failure.
...feelings of failure.
Synonyms: lack of success, defeat, collapse, abortion  
2. countable noun B2
If something is a failure, it is not a success.
The marriage was a failure and they both wanted to be free of it.
His six-year transition programme has by no means been a complete failure.
Synonyms: catastrophe, disaster, fiasco, let-down  
3. countable noun B2
If you say that someone is a failure, you mean that they have not succeeded in a particular activity, or that they are unsuccessful at everything they do.
Elgar received many honors and much acclaim and yet he often considered himself a failure.
I just felt I had been a failure in my personal life.
Synonyms: loser, disappointment, no-good, flop [informal]  
4. uncountable noun [NOUN to-infinitive, oft poss NOUN]
Your failure to do a particular thing is the fact that you do not do it, even though you were expected to do it.
She accused the Foreign Office of disgraceful failure to support British citizens arrested overseas.
...their failure to get the product mix right.
5. variable noun [oft noun NOUN]
If there is a failure of something, for example a machine or part of the body, it goes wrong and stops working or developing properly.
There were also several accidents mainly caused by engine failures on take-off.
He was being treated for kidney failure.
Researchers found an almost total crop failure and a severe shortage of drinking water.
Synonyms: failing, deterioration, decay, loss  
6. variable noun
If there is a failure of a business or bank, it is no longer able to continue operating. [business]
Business failures rose 16% last month.
Synonyms: bankruptcy, crash, collapse, ruin  
7. variable noun [NOUN of noun]
If you say that someone has a failure of a particular quality or ability, you mean that they do not have enough of it.
There is, too, a simple failure of imagination.
He remained on his knees for a long time afterwards, ashamed by his failure of nerve.
Quotations:
There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lipR.B. BarhamThe Ingoldsby Legends
A failure is a stranger in his own houseEric HofferThe Passionate State of Mind
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great objectJohn KeatsEndymion
There is no failure except in no longer tryingElbert HubbardThe Note Book
Collocations:
bank failure
And because of the impact of bank failure on the wider economy, we also cut taxes and brought forward crucial public investment to put more money in people's pockets.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The risk of future bank failures and bailout crises remains high.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
So allowing commercial banks to engage in investment banking might produce more bank failures and a less stable financial system.
Financial Markets, Institutions and Money (1995)
brake failure
It was not known why the second truck did not stop, but brake failure was suspected.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Police accident investigators were yesterday examining the lorry to try to establish the cause of the brake failure.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The main line of investigation is brake failure.
The Sun (2013)
chronic failure
There was also a chronic failure by the social services.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
If there are chronic performance failures, you may need to directly address them.
Christianity Today (2000)
A review last week cited " significant and chronic system failures" in the nation's health system for veterans.
Time Magazine (2014)
collective failure
In a week when the collective failure of British politicians is so easy to recall, it is worth also recalling their collective success.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
As a result, our culture suffers from a collective failure of the imagination.
Christianity Today (2000)
Responsibility involves accepting blame for collective failure as well as credit for success.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
continuing failure
His continuing failure in the Champions League has left him vulnerable, according to certain City insiders.
The Sun (2013)
All in all, the banks should be ashamed at their continuing failure to tackle this issue.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
But the poll is also a judgment on his continuing failure to persuade voters that he is a credible PM in waiting.
The Sun (2014)
costly failure
The attempts were costly failures.
The Sun (2014)
I reminded him of some other avoidable, costly failures.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Another costly failure was avoided yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
embarrassing failure
It represented a success for a system that has suffered embarrassing failures.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Those who knew me now knew my worst moments, my most embarrassing failures.
Christianity Today (2000)
It is the second embarrassing failure in less than a year to undermine the watchdog's reputation.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
equipment failure
The plane probably suffered a catastrophic equipment failure during a storm.
The Sun (2009)
Equipment failures are a common story.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
For dozens of servicemen, these equipment failures have been lethal.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
expose a failure
Critics last night said the Ministry of Justice figures exposed a 'total failure of public protection'.
The Sun (2014)
Opposition politicians said her comments exposed the failure of the government's policies on crime.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It exposes serious failures in the management of the hospital and its training regime that contributed to the culture of abuse.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
failure occurs
Heart failure occurs when the organ becomes too weak to pump blood efficiently round the body.
Times, Sunday Times
When, or perhaps if, a substantial private equity failure occurs, who exactly will be left hanging out to dry?
Times, Sunday Times
Recovery testing should not be confused with reliability testing, which tries to discover the specific point at which failure occurs.
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Some tools are built into a product, to automatically collect data when a fault or failure occurs.
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In order for a design to be considered safe, the deformation due to creep must be much less than the strain at which failure occurs.
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failure of imagination
They stemmed from a failure of imagination and ideas.
Times, Sunday Times
It's a failure of education on a massive scale, as well as a failure of imagination and a failure of hope.
Times, Sunday Times
Their attitudes have nothing to do with science and everything to do with a failure of imagination.
Times, Sunday Times
The decision has been condemned as a failure of imagination, the antithesis of audacity and hope.
Times, Sunday Times
Our diffidence in enforcing our values stems from a failure of imagination.
Times, Sunday Times
failure of leadership
And he admitted there had been 'a failure of leadership, culture and priorities'.
The Sun
It was really a failure of leadership, but, truth to tell, appeasement was always popular.
Times, Sunday Times
Why has this drastic failure of leadership happened?
Times, Sunday Times
In both cases this decision looks like a failure of leadership.
Times, Sunday Times
He criticised a failure of leadership for the persistence of a culture of excuses in some schools.
Times, Sunday Times
failure of nerve
But the biggest problem of all is a colossal failure of nerve.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
Was it an almost comical failure of nerve?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He launched an immoderate tirade on Turner, accusing him of lack of stomach for the fight, of failure of nerve, of lack of leadership.
Kippax, Frank THE SCAR (2002)
failure rate
Oracle, the database and software company, suggested a 70 per cent failure rate.
Times, Sunday Times
Agents said that one failed deal in ten was the mark of a good agent and that some would be experiencing a greater failure rate.
Times, Sunday Times
The transaction failure rate means some agents are submitting would-be buyers to financial health checks before considering their offers.
Times, Sunday Times
Treatment for conditions such as bronchitis and pneumonia was the least successful, with an increased failure rate of 35 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times
Such small firms have a higher failure rate than larger ones.
Times, Sunday Times
failure results from
Its failure results from ignoring the lessons from previous rail infrastructure projects.
Times, Sunday Times
Seal failure results from a flooded compressor with oil or liquid, foreign contaminants and alignment problems.
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Camels can withstand losing 25% of their body weight to sweating, whereas most other mammals can withstand only about 1214% dehydration before cardiac failure results from circulatory disturbance.
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fear of failure
He made it later, transferred from secondary modern school because he excelled academically, but the fear of failure stuck.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
This fear of failure holds back so many capable people.
Mansfield, Patricia Why Am I Afraid to be Assertive? (1994)
If you take the job and your chief emotion is fear of failure you're halfway to losing already.
The Sun (2014)
Suddenly we were in the midst of an earnest conversation about my fear of failure as a writer.
Smithsonian Mag (2017)
He says fear of failure keeps him afloat.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
heroic failure
We have accepted heroic failure for far too long
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Was that a great achievement or an heroic failure?
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Put aside the brave faces and the pride in heroic failure.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
highlight a failure
There is no shame in highlighting these failures, or taking them to task.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Yet the success here serves simply to highlight the failures elsewhere.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
We needed to stop being afraid of highlighting failure.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
highlight failures
He recorded death by natural causes but highlighted gross failures that may have saved her life.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
There is no shame in highlighting these failures, or taking them to task.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Yet the success here serves simply to highlight the failures elsewhere.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
inevitable failure
Their inevitable failure would lead to dire stabilization programmes.
The Times Literary Supplement
It was a damp squib, and its inevitable failure came about because its priority was not excellence, but money.
Times, Sunday Times
I love to make new year's resolutions despite the inevitable failure factor.
Times, Sunday Times
His inevitable failure enriches them all.
Times, Sunday Times
Yet this awareness of inevitable failure did not prevent him from attempting to write, nor should it forestall new efforts to render him afresh in translation.
The Times Literary Supplement
institutional failure
The decision emerged on the eve ofa report that will condemn the health service for an institutional failure to respond to evidence of disastrous care.
Times, Sunday Times
There has been a catalogue of institutional failure.
Times, Sunday Times
The nature and extent of errors pointed to 'collective institutional failure'.
Times, Sunday Times
We should be wary, however, of presuming this to be an institutional failure.
Times, Sunday Times
Institutional failure to recognise the existential quality of this process would indeed result in us all being caught on the back foot.
Times, Sunday Times
intelligence failure
A succession of intelligence failures preceded the attacks.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Across the Atlantic, Britain faced a similar intelligence failure.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
MI6 has suffered a number of recent intelligence failures and measures were supposed to be put in place to stop them happening again.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
market failure
A market failure should be corrected by a nationwide policy of minimum alcohol pricing.
Times, Sunday Times
The market can address what has been a market failure.
Times, Sunday Times
Before we think about solutions, though, we should identify the problem - that ownership failure can be a bigger problem than market failure.
Times, Sunday Times
He talks about market failure, but not about state failure.
Times, Sunday Times
The market failure that led to our present crisis was in large part fuelled by the shorttermism of capital solely concerned with building shareholder value.
Times, Sunday Times
massive failure
Second, if we were just enjoying massive failure, then any really bad movie would be good-bad art; movies would simply have to fail.
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This has been a massive failure of public policy.
Times, Sunday Times
No wonder the project was a massive failure - they sound like an indecisive bunch.
The Sun
How can we denounce the massive failure of negotiation in 1914 when we are spectacularly failing in the most important negotiations of our era?
Times, Sunday Times
This caused the failure of the vertical and horizontal flight controls (rudder and elevator), and a massive failure of numerous systems of the aircraft.
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miserable failure
His campaign was a miserable failure.
Christianity Today (2000)
And what a miserable failure it was.
Christianity Today (2000)
Reflecting on the horrors, he said: 'There have been wonderful successes and miserable failures'.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
moral failure
He previously blamed a succession of crashes and failures on the moral failure of the 'leadership' of the space programme.
Times, Sunday Times
It wasn't just a moral failure; it was a complete spiritual breakdown.
Christianity Today
Don't look away: to do so would be a moral failure.
Christianity Today
The global financial crisis can be viewed as a failure on many levels — it was a regulatory failure, a moral failure, a failure of institutions.
Times, Sunday Times
The adult remembers his moral failure that day, and the minor miracle that he witnessed and recognised as kind of redemption.
Times, Sunday Times
multiple failures
The investigators listed multiple failures by the captain and co-pilot to carry out basic checks and briefings.
Times, Sunday Times
I am gravely concerned by the apparent multiple failures over at least a decade to thoroughly investigate.
Times, Sunday Times
It was a worrisome analysis of the multiple failures of institutions whose concrete stables are strewn with good intentions.
Times, Sunday Times
Multiple failures of management, governance and of the counsel of its advisers.
Times, Sunday Times
Over the past 18 months the country has been rocked by scandals involving multiple failures of responsibility and accountability.
Times, Sunday Times
organ failure
And finally, in a third to a half of all cases, there would be 'severe complications', including brain damage, multiple organ failure and coma.
Times, Sunday Times
Her blood was full of clots which could have caused organ failure.
The Sun
The reason for organ failure could not be determined.
The Sun
The virus can also spread elsewhere in the body, even to the brain, to cause multiple organ failure.
Times, Sunday Times
The lightweight system would protect travellers from harmful radiation from the sun, which causes sickness and even organ failure.
The Sun
perceived failure
I can be too strict with my sons, as I don't want them to repeat my perceived failures.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
No one handles life perfectly; they don't need to be reminded of their perceived failures.
Christianity Today (2000)
The women stressed that the charity was not set up because of any perceived failure.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
persistent failure
A persistent failure to enforce the present law cannot be addressed by enactment of a new law that our courts would be required to set aside.
Times, Sunday Times
These include the persistent failure of uptake among a section of households, poor customer service and stubbornly low speeds.
Times, Sunday Times
Prior had previously been picked apart for his persistent failure to convert starts into substantial scores.
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His international career was blighted by his persistent failure to turn up to training.
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The result was persistent failure and defeat on every frontier.
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policy failure
And therein lies the great British foreign policy failure.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Who is responsible for serious policy failure is rarely clear cut.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
This policy failure of politicians has been at the root of the credit crisis.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
predict a failure
He wrote of his frustration with the design that was chosen, and predicted a failure.
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Many contemporaries predicted the failure of electric telegraphs because they are so easy to cut.
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The two predicted the failure of cap and trade for its focus on making fossil fuels expensive rather than on technology innovation to make clean energy cheap.
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relative failure
The result represented only a relative failure, apparently, for yesterday's newly converted.
Times, Sunday Times
The most magically successful of piano concertos and a relative failure are here put side by side.
Times, Sunday Times
Some of the entries are positive but many reflect the loneliness of his work, the arbitrariness of the line that distinguishes success and relative failure in his job.
Times, Sunday Times
Some biochemists attribute excessive tiredness to the relative failure of the complex system that controls cell metabolism to adapt to, and cope with, the work pattern of today's office worker.
Times, Sunday Times
We are supposed to be impressed by his perpetual pursuit of the rock 'dream' after 30 years and 13 albums of relative failure.
The Sun
repeated failure
Repeated failure can be dispiriting and, as the visitor, it's up to me to call time on the experiment.
Times, Sunday Times
The repeated failure of hydroponic rice baffled and infuriated the farmers.
Times, Sunday Times
It's about not giving up despite repeated failure.
The Sun
Other businesses also vented their anger at the club's repeated failure to clear their debts.
Times, Sunday Times
Remember their repeated failure in key goal-line situations?
Houston Chronicle
reward failure
It is clearly damaging to shareholders' interests to reward failure.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
To see failure rewarded is always galling.
The Sun (2014)
They certainly should pay bonuses as long as those bonuses do not reward failure.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
sense of humour failure
Then I had a monumental sense of humour failure, all of which was captured on film.
The Sun (2006)
Do you feel that some people have had a sense of humour failure where this film is concerned?
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
We're comedians, so why the sense of humour failure?
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
signal failure
The match was not a sell-out and many punters appeared to have been caught up in the signal failure on the Metropolitan Line.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Services from Paddington to Heathrow were halted by signal failure, wrecking countless holidays.
The Sun (2012)
We chatted and just reached her stop when we heard the announcement that there was a signal failure up ahead and a bus had been laid on instead.
The Sun (2012)
spectacular failure
The night was a spectacular failure.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Prohibition was in its eighth year and was a spectacular failure.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
There have been some runaway successes - and spectacular failures.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
structural failure
The evidence so far collected could point equally to damage by bomb or explosive structural failure.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Finally, the icosahedra are fully destroyed, resulting in structural failure.
Jun Li, Lisheng Liu, Shuang Xu, Jinyong Zhang, Yuanli Wu 2018, 'The Effects of Carbon Content on the Anisotropic Deformation Mechanism of Boron Carbide', Materials
Interdiffusion reaction products are formed since nuclear fission promotes chemical interaction layer during operation, leading to potential structural failure.
Adonis Marcelo Saliba-Silva, Ilson Carlos Martins, Elita Fontenelle Urano de Carvalho, Davilson Gomes da Silva, Humberto Gracher Riella, Michelangelo Durazzo 2012, 'Interdiffusion studies on hot rolled U-10Mo/AA1050', Materials Research
sudden failure
Degradation of materials in this environment can lead to reduced performance and, in some cases, sudden failure.
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It can lead to unexpected sudden failure of normally ductile metals subjected to a tensile stress, especially at elevated temperature in the case of metals.
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The accident drew public attention to the potential for metal fatigue to cause sudden failure of the structure of a modern civil aircraft.
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He was well fit and worked as usual until the week before his death, when he had a sudden failure of heart and kidney.
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Sudden failures of these moraines can cause floods with cascading failures of manmade structures downstream.
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suffer a failure
The aircraft had suffered an in-flight failure of the same engine two years ago.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
After suffering renal failure, she was put on life support and given three days to live.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He suffered a serious failure of willpower, fuelled by lust.
The Sun (2016)
system failure
What happened was in effect a power system failure or loss of electrical power at the data centre.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Such situations, if unhandled, may lead to system failures that in some cases can have catastrophic consequences.
Joanna Strug Journal of Engineering (2016)
Their shocking story highlights so many system failures.
The Sun (2013)
systemic failure
And he recorded a narrative verdict, describing ' systemic failure to provide specialist advice'.
The Sun (2008)
Yet the headline figures mask systemic failure and a stubborn reluctance to confront its more obvious causes.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
We reject the suggestion that this is evidence of systemic failure.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
For five trains to fail points to systemic failure - something has changed, or been changed.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
technical failure
The bikes also suffer from persistent technical failures.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
A spokesman for the crash investigators said: 'It was connected to technical failure and a fire in the right engine'.
The Sun (2008)
The retailer blamed a technical failure and has paid rents promptly since.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
total failure
But his second attempt was a total failure, with all four judges putting the kibosh on his bid to reach boot camp.
The Sun (2013)
Yet this shows a total failure to grasp who picks up the pieces.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
To lose in the first round would be a total failure.
The Sun (2006)
An inability to transfer property at the agreed time would amount to a breach of condition and a total failure of consideration.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
tragic failure
I had felt the ache of their loneliness and listened to soaring hopes and shattered dreams, significant success and tragic failure.
Christianity Today
The first operation proved a tragic failure, the second a resounding success.
Times, Sunday Times
Obviously, my attempt must end in tragic failure on the kitchen floor.
Times, Sunday Times
Yet they acquitted themselves heroically in an operation that was to prove a tragic failure.
Times, Sunday Times
Being first can reap great rewards, but it can also lead to tragic failures.
Times,Sunday Times
treatment failure
When proposed, this model allowed for the understanding of tumour growth, treatment failure, and tumour aggression that occurs during the natural process of tumour formation.
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Symptoms may significantly alter the quality of life of affected patients, and brain metastases generally represent overall treatment failure.
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The primary outcome was freedom from treatment failure after 16 weeks of therapy; the secondary outcome was attentional dysfunction.
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The more treatment failures they have, the less the chance they will respond to subsequent treatments.
Times,Sunday Times
In other cases of endodontic treatment failure, a referral to a periodontist or an oral and maxillofacial surgeon for replacement of the tooth with a dental implant may be indicated.
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ultimate failure
All this led to obfuscation and the ultimate failure of meaningful conservation measures.
The Times Literary Supplement
Interviews with the bosses themselves, their families, friends and players lift the lid on a catalogue of ultimate failure.
The Sun
Nevertheless, a number of factors during the following years contributed to the plan's ultimate failure.
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Once the material has reached its ultimate tensile strength it will elongate more easily until it reaches ultimate failure and breaks.
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In ultimate failure this will result in one or more breaks in the material.
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utter failure
That war has been an utter failure and a waste of lives, time and money.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
If you win but the team loses, that's an utter failure.
Christianity Today (2000)
An utter failure, the project nonetheless forms part of my biography.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
widespread failure
A widespread failure to use words correctly has consequences for meaning and understanding.
Times, Sunday Times
Even such a widespread failure of crops should not, on its own, have caused the collapse of the great empires.
Times, Sunday Times
The widespread failure of retailers to pay rent on time during the crisis has further stoked mistrust.
Times,Sunday Times
The sudden widespread failure was unprecedented and brought the most extensive cuts in recent memory.
Times, Sunday Times
In 1914, a major drought had caused widespread failure of crops.
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