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单词 failure
释义 fail·ure
\ˈfālyə(r)\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: alteration (influenced by -ure) of earlier failer, from Anglo-French failer, from Old French faillir to fail — more at fail
1.
 a. : omission of performance of an action or task; especially : neglect of an assigned, expected, or appropriate action
  < 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. : the fact of a certain action or process not having occurred : the fact of nonoccurrence
  < failure of the water to pass through the pipe >
  < the failure of the drug to have a harmful effect >
2. : want of success : lack of satisfactory performance or effect
 < the failure of the attack on the fort >
 < the failure of the candidate in the election >
3. obsolete : failing, lapse
4.
 a. : deficiency, lack : the fact of being cumulatively inadequate or not matching hopes or expectations
  < the crop failures brought on near famine >
 b. : absence, nonexistence
  < through failure of heirs, most of the state societies had disintegrated — A.F.Harlow >
 c. : marked weakening : the fact of becoming exhausted or enfeebled : deterioration
  < any impairment or failure of his bodily vigor through sickness or age — J.C.Frazer >
 d. medicine : inability to perform a vital function
  < heart failure >
 e. : a collapsing, fracturing, or giving way under stress : inability of a material or structure to fulfill an intended purpose
5.
 a. : bankruptcy
  < the failure of the company >
  < the failure of a friend whose note he had endorsed >
 b. : a venture financially unsuccessful
  < although a contribution to literature, the play was a box-office failure >
6. : a person or thing that has failed
 < people who were either failures or had had no ambitions — Louis Bromfield >
 < the war against the confederation was a failure >
7.
 a. : the fact of failing in a test or course
 b. : a failing grade
 c. : a student who has failed
Synonyms:
 neglect, default, miscarriage, dereliction: failure implies a lack or absence of something expected especially in performance or achievement
  < 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 neglectPhoenix 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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