| 单词 | to be in fault |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be in (†one's, †the) fault (a) With reference to persons: Culpability; the blame or responsibility of causing or permitting some untoward occurrence; the wrongdoing or negligence to which a specified evil is attributable. to be in (†one's, †the) fault: to be to blame. †to lay, put (a) fault †in, upon: to impute blame to. †to bear the fault: to bear the blame. it is my (his, etc.) fault: I am (he is, etc.) the person to blame for what has happened. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > guilt > [noun] sakeOE wite?c1225 blame1297 guiltc1330 fault1377 culpablenessc1380 guiltinessc1480 guiltyship1557 faultiness1571 fact1583 blameworthinessa1586 delinquishment1593 obnoxiousness1610 nocency1611 delinquence1613 nocence1614 piacle1619 deliquity1682 society > morality > moral evil > guilt > [noun] > responsibility for wrong guilt11.. unmethelOE fault1377 blame1393 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. x. 103 And leyden fautes vpon þe fader þat fourmed vs alle. 1530 E. Crome in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. x. 20 I doo nott putt fawte in no man. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 429/2 I am..in the faute that a thyng is a mysse, jay tort. 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Northumberland xix This was my hap, my fortune, or my fawte. 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 290 He will be found in his fault, that wantis. 1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 206 To lay the faulte upon Anthony. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xi. sig. Ee6 Their Superiours are in the fault. 1700 S. L. tr. C. Schweitzer Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 349 The Master was in all the fault. 1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. v. 113 Lay the Fault on me. 1726–31 N. Tindal tr. P. Rapin de Thoyras Hist. Eng. (1743) II. xvii. 675 Who are in the greatest faults. 1744 A. Pope Epist. to Several Persons ii. 28 Let Blood and Body bear the fault. 1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 259 All is lost, but not through any fault of mine. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 22 When weak poets go astray, ‘The stars are more in fault than they’. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) ii. 9 It will be our own faults if we lose sight of this one. 1884 F. M. Crawford Rom. Singer (ed. 2) I. 1 It was not any fault of mine. < as lemmas |
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