| 单词 | failure |
| 释义 | fail·ure 1. a. < the mechanic's failure to adjust the brake > < the failure of students to write complete sentences > < the scout's failure to rejoin the party > b. < failure of the water to pass through the pipe > < the failure of the drug to have a harmful effect > 2. < the failure of the attack on the fort > < the failure of the candidate in the election > 3. obsolete 4. a. < the crop failures brought on near famine > b. < through failure of heirs, most of the state societies had disintegrated — A.F.Harlow > c. < any impairment or failure of his bodily vigor through sickness or age — J.C.Frazer > d. medicine < heart failure > e. 5. a. < the failure of the company > < the failure of a friend whose note he had endorsed > b. < although a contribution to literature, the play was a box-office failure > 6. < people who were either failures or had had no ambitions — Louis Bromfield > < the war against the confederation was a failure > 7. a. b. c. Synonyms: < the failure of the courts in the past to formulate any principle for drawing a boundary line around the right of free speech — Zechariah Chafee > < the ailing civilization pays the penalty for its failure of vitality by becoming disintegrated — A.J.Toynbee > < nutritional failure due to inadequate intake of proteins and vitamins — Journal American Medical Association > neglect implies carelessness or inattentiveness resulting in incompleteness or inadequacy of performance or achievement < any neglect to take into consideration the relations of the social framework can only lead to a defective understanding — M.F.A.Montagu > < so intent on taking care of the physical mechanics of getting things done, their creative and imaginative faculties suffer from neglect — Phoenix Flame > < driven to extreme bitterness by public neglect of his work — American Guide Series: New York > default, now chiefly in legal context, implies a failure to perform something required, usually by total omission of any action at all < some of our decisions … are arrived at by default — that is, by “letting things go” — W.J.Reilly > < betraying by default the privileges of citizenship in a democratic society — Vera M. Dean > < in some default of faith too base for words — William Alfred > miscarriage is often used when one cannot assign or wishes to avoid assigning specific blame for a failure < it seems to me a miscarriage of the artist's job if his reputation does his work for him — William Arrowsmith > < we fear … some miscarriage in the details of our plan — J.W.Krutch > < a miscarriage of justice > dereliction is extremely strong in signifying or implying a neglect or nonobservance amounting to a reprehensible abandonment of a morally compelling duty, law, or principle < there is a moral dereliction in failure by any member of a profession to apply in professional practice the standards which, by consensus of opinion in the profession, are necessary — Journal American Medical Association > < every good reporter knows that his friendship for a news source must never extend so far as disregard of official dereliction or incompetence — F.L.Mott > < a manager who fails to throw out hour-old coffee and replace it with fresh coffee is warned not to repeat his dereliction — Jack Alexander > |
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