Fail

(verb.) get worse; 'Her health is declining'.

(verb.) stop operating or functioning; 'The engine finally went'; 'The car died on the road'; 'The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town'; 'The coffee maker broke'; 'The engine failed on the way to town'; 'her eyesight went after the accident'.

(verb.) prove insufficient; 'The water supply for the town failed after a long drought'.

(verb.) disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake; 'His sense of smell failed him this time'; 'His strength finally failed him'; 'His children failed him in the crisis'.

(verb.) become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close; 'The toy company went bankrupt after the competition hired cheap Mexican labor'; 'A number of banks failed that year'.

(verb.) fail to get a passing grade; 'She studied hard but failed nevertheless'; 'Did I fail the test?'.

(verb.) judge unacceptable; 'The teacher failed six students'.

(verb.) be unsuccessful; 'Where do today's public schools fail?'; 'The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably'.

(verb.) fail to do something; leave something undone; 'She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib'; 'The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account'.

(verb.) be unable; 'I fail to understand your motives'.

(verb.) fall short in what is expected; 'She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law'; 'We must not fail his obligation to the victims of the Holocaust'.

录入:万斯

• I shall not fail, _Deo volente_, said he. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Can anybody fail to make the inference what the practical result will be? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• He continued to bet on his own play, but began often to fail. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It would have been shameful to fail after spending so much time and money, when everyone knew that you could do well. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• And the experiment must not be tried; I tell you it would fail. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Shirley's expedients did not fail her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Sometimes their feet failed them, and they sank together in a heap; they were then propped up with the monitors' high stools. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Nay, he appeared so much otherwise, that his daughter's courage failed. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Matthew, sceptic and scoffer, had already failed to subscribe a prompt belief in that pain about the heart. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• As the idea of citizenship failed and faded before the new occasions, there remained no inner, that is to say no real, unity in the system at all. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He succeeded, where Taft failed, in preventing that drought of invention which officialism brings. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The crusade saved the principality of Antioch for a time, but failed to retake Jerusalem. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• His ambition was to restore the empire of Jengis Khan as he conceived it, a project in which he completely failed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The hearty old landlord was trying to look very cheerful and unconcerned, but failing signally in the attempt. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• She seemed to be more soured and put out than distressed, by failing to find any traces of her daughter in these parts. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It was this intensely interesting side of bee life that attracted the attention of a clergyman in failing health, forced to seek out-of-door occupation, in the early forties. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• We were failing under the accumulated fatigue of days and days of ceaseless marching. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• We have seen the Roman Republic wrecked, and here we see the church failing in its world mission very largely through ineffective electoral methods. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You have possibly had other guns in reserve in case there should be several tigers, or in the unlikely supposition of your own aim failing you. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Upon the whole, it was a comfortable winter to her; for though it brought no William to England, the never-failing hope of his arrival was worth much. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• We have an open carriage outside, and as you would no doubt like to see the place before the light fails, we might talk it over as we drive. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• History fails to relate a great deal about the mechanical detail of the Pennington model, but it is said to have made a very creditable performance in exhibition. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• If it fails on its merits, he doesn't worry or fret about it, but, on the contrary, regards it as a useful fact learned; remains cheerful and tries something else. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The ordinary course of action fails to give adequate stimulus to emotion and imagination. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The artist studies the progress of his own attempts to see what succeeds and what fails. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• They take with them a quantity of food, and when the commissary department fails they skirmish, as Jack terms it in his sinful, slangy way. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The conception always precedes the understanding; and where the one is obscure, the other is uncertain; where the one fails, the other must fail also. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.

手打:玛吉