| 单词 | fault |
| 释义 | fault (once / 89 pages) 1n 2nv A fault is an error caused by ignorance, bad judgment or inattention. If you're a passenger, it might be your fault that your friend missed the exit, if you were supposed to be watching for it, not sleeping. Fault can mean "blame" — as a noun or verb. If you say, "It's my fault," you accept the blame. Well, they can't fault you for telling the truth, at least. A fault can be a shortcoming — everyone has faults because no one is perfect — or a crack in the earth's crust, like the San Andreas Fault. In sports like tennis, a fault is an illegal hit of the ball, usually when it lands outside the playing area. WORD FAMILYfault: faulted, faulting, faultless, faults, faulty+/faulting: faultings/faultless: faultlessly, faultlessness/faulty: faultier, faultiest, faultily, faultiness USAGE EXAMPLES“The accident investigation team worked systematically through an extensive fault tree analysis,” SpaceX said in its statement. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The southern Brawley Seismic Zone is close in proximity to the Imperial fault. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) It’s his fault that his team started poorly in every game during the final month. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n an imperfection in an object or machine Syn|Hypo|Hyper defect, flaw blister a flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint) bug, glitcha fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine holea fault imperfection, imperfectness the state or an instance of being imperfect 2n the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection he knew his own faults much better than she did Syn|Ant|Hyper demerit merit, virtue any admirable quality or attribute worth the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful 3n a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults Syn|Hypo|Hyper error, mistake blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain an act that brings discredit to the person who does it confusion, mix-upa mistake that results from taking one thing to be another incursionthe mistake of incurring liability or blame miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoninga mistake in calculating distortionthe mistake of misrepresenting the facts miscue, parapraxis, slip, slip-upa minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. offside(sport) the mistake of occupying an illegal position on the playing field (in football, soccer, ice hockey, field hockey, etc.) lapse, oversighta mistake resulting from inattention omission, skipa mistake resulting from neglect bloomer, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, pratfallan embarrassing mistake balls-up, ballup, cockup, mess-upsomething badly botched or muddled betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility, stupiditya stupid mistake renege, revokethe mistake of not following suit when able to do so failurean unexpected omission bobblethe momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball backfire, boomeranga miscalculation that recoils on its maker rounding, rounding error(mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals truncation error(mathematics) a miscalculation that results from cutting off a numerical calculation before it is finished Freudian slipa slip-up that (according to Sigmund Freud) results from the operation of unconscious wishes or conflicts and can reveal unconscious processes in normal healthy individuals spectaclea blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself bulla serious and ludicrous blunder fumble, muff(sports) dropping the ball fluffa blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines) faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, slip, solecisma socially awkward or tactless act howlera glaring blunder clangera conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate misstep, stumble, trip, trip-upan unintentional but embarrassing blunder nonaccomplishment, nonachievement an act that does not achieve its intended goal 4n (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other they built it right over a geological fault Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper break, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift Denali Fault a major open geological fault in Alaska San Andreas Faulta major geological fault in California; runs from San Diego to San Francisco; the source of serious earthquakes inclined fault a geological fault in which one side is above the other strike-slip faulta geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally common fault, gravity fault, normal faultan inclined fault in which the hanging wall appears to have slipped downward relative to the footwall overthrust fault, reverse fault, thrust faulta geological fault in which the upper side appears to have been pushed upward by compression cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, scissure a long narrow opening 5n (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.) it took much longer to find the fault than to fix it Hyper breakdown, equipment failure a cessation of normal operation 6n (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area) 2he served too many double faults Hypo|Hyper double fault (tennis) two successive faults in serving resulting in the loss of the point footfaulta fault that occurs when the server in tennis fails to keep both feet behind the baseline serve, service (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play 1n responsibility for a bad situation or event it was John's fault Hyper responsibility, responsibleness a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct 2v put or pin the blame on Syn|Ant|Hyper blame absolve, free, justify let off the hook accuse, charge blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against |
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