英语词汇“fail”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	fail
释义	fail I. \ˈfāl, esp before pause or consonant -āəl\ verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English faillen, failen, from Old French faillir, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin fallire, alteration of Latin fallere to deceive, be concealed from, escape observation, be ignorant of; probably akin to Greek phēlos deceitful, Sanskrit hruṇāti he gets lost, Old Slavic zŭlŭ bad, evil *intransitive verb* 1. a. : to undergo loss of vigor or activity : lose strength, power, vitality, or intensity : become enfeebled < his health failed and he retired young > < the breeze failed and we were becalmed > < the warm sun is failing … the pale flowers are dying — P.B.Shelley > < the never failing river of student life — J.B.Conant > b. : to diminish in amount or quantity to a point of inadequacy : dwindle away : run short < the supplies of the defenders failed > c. : to cease to be encountered : be or become nonexistent < should the rains fail … the numbers of the game depreciate — James Stevenson-Hamilton > d. : to become extinct : die away < until our family line fails > e. : to be inadequate < time fails for recounting all his exploits > f. : to lose strength and control rapidly as a prelude to dying < the old man was failing and they decided to spare him the shock of the news > g. : to grow dim and difficult or impossible to perceive < the radio signals failed > < the landward marks have failed — Rudyard Kipling > h. : to weaken and come to function very imperfectly < his eyesight was failing > < the senile old woman's mind was failing > i. : to stop functioning < the patient's heart failed > < one of the plane's engines failed > j. : to fall away from an expected or hoped-for yield < the peach crop failed > 2. a. : to miss attainment : fall short of achievement or realization — usually used with of < this chronicle … may fail of effect — Clifton Fadiman > < the senator failed of reelection > < music that fails of beauty > b. : to miss success in some effort : become forced to leave incomplete an attempt or enterprise — used with infinitive < he failed to finish the race > < when a rainmaker fails to produce rain — J.G.Frazer > c. : to neglect to do something : leave something undone : be found wanting in not doing something — used with infinitive < the janitor had failed to call the fire department > < had criminally failed to latch the street door — Arnold Bennett > < if our civilization has failed to enable us to look further than our own egoistic ends — Havelock Ellis > d. : to miss success : be unavailing : miscarry — used of things, devices, and arrangements < the commission failed to settle the refugee question > < the jack failed to raise the truck > e. : to end without success : miss successful achievement of a result < I failed, yet still I clung to the hope — Mary W. Shelley > < the neurotic personality wishes to fail > f. : to leave some possible or expected action unperformed or some condition unachieved < he usually fails to remember his dreams > < they could hardly fail to meet > < explosive statements that rarely failed to startle his hearers — D.D.Eisenhower > < meals that fail to satisfy > < a … section that the continental glacier failed to cover — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < a rise in prices that failed to develop > 3. a. : to be deficient or inadequate : lack < Aristophanes could ridicule all the literary Homeric gods but must never fail in respect to Athena — Gilbert Murray > b. : to prove inadequate, deficient, or unavailing on trial : give away or break down < the attack failed > < the supporting brace failed > c. : to become unable to meet financial engagements; especially : to become bankrupt or insolvent < banks were failing, unemployment was soaring — N.M.Clark > d. : to be deficient or unable to meet a test or standard of attainment < he failed in arithmetic > < a failing term paper > 4. obsolete : to err in judgment : be in error *transitive verb* 1. : to disappoint the expectations or trust of : be found wanting at the time of need of (a person) : miss performing expected or hoped-for service, assistance, or function for < his allies failed him when the battle started > < if a man's English subordinates fail him in India, he comes to a hard time indeed — Rudyard Kipling > < she reached for a chair and sat down suddenly, as if her legs had failed her — Ellen Glasgow > < for once his ready wit failed him > 2. : to be deficient in : lack < our youth … never failed an invincible courage — Douglas MacArthur > 3. obsolete : to leave undone or unperformed < his morning prayer, which he never failed > 4. archaic : to disappoint or leave unfulfilled (a trust, hope, or expectation) < the book fails the reader's hopes > 5. a. : to prove so deficient in knowledge or skill as not to pass (as a test or course) < she failed her driving test > < he failed chemistry > b. : to rate (as a pupil) as deficient in achievement for not meeting the standard required for passing < the teacher failed only his two worst students > II. noun Etymology: Middle English faille, faile, from Old French faille, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin fallia, from Late Latin fallire 1. a. obsolete : failure to occur b. : omission of doing or performing something — usually used in the phrase without fail 2. obsolete : want of success III. noun : a failure (as by a security dealer) to deliver or receive securities within a prescribed period after a purchase or sale
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