- 简明
- 柯林斯
- 牛津
fail
高中/CET4/CET6/考研/GRE
- 英 [feɪl]
- 美 [feɪl]
释义
- 常用
- 高考讲解
- v.失败; 没有做; 出故障; 倒闭; 衰弱; 不够; 不及格
- n.不及格
大小写变形:FAIL
词态变化
- 第三人称单数: fails;
- 过去式: failed;
- 过去分词: failed;
- 现在分词: failing;
实用场景例句
- 全部
- 失败
- 不及格
- 倒闭
- 破产
- 缺乏
- 衰退
- 不足
- 忘记
- 舍弃
- 失误
- 不及格者
Many diets fail because they are boring.
许多规定饮食因单调乏味都不奏效。
牛津词典
a failing school
一所失败的学校
牛津词典
She failed to get into art college.
她未能进入艺术学院。
牛津词典
The song can't fail to be a hit (= definitely will be a hit) .
这首歌不可能不流行起来。
牛津词典
I failed in my attempt to persuade her.
我未能说服她。
牛津词典
Tomorrow without fail he would be at the old riverside warehouse.
明天他一定会在河边的旧仓库里。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
On the 30th you must without fail hand in some money for Alex...
30 日那天你必须替亚历克斯交一些钱。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
He attended every meeting without fail.
他逢会必到。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
That's how it was in my day and I fail to see why it should be different now.
我那时候就是这样的,我搞不懂为什么现在非要弄得不一样。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
I lived in fear of failing my end-of-term exams.
我总是担心期末考试不及格。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
...the two men who had failed him during his first year of law school.
在法学院一年级时让他不及格的两个人
柯林斯高阶英语词典
If all else fails, I could always drive a truck.
如果其他都不行,我总还可以开卡车。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
If we did not report what was happening in the country, we would be failing in our duty.
如果我们没有报道这个国家正在发生的事情,我们就没有尽到自己的责任。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
For once, the artist's fertile imagination failed him...
这位画家丰富的想象力曾一度枯竭。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
Their courage failed a few steps short and they came running back.
还差几步他们却胆怯了,又跑回来了。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
In fact many food crops failed because of the drought.
实际上,因为干旱,很多粮食作物歉收。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
So far this year, 104 banks have failed.
今年到目前为止,已有 104 家银行倒闭。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
...a failed hotel business...
破产的酒店
柯林斯高阶英语词典
He was 58, and his health was failing rapidly...
他 58 岁,身体正在迅速衰老。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
Here in the hills, the light failed more quickly...
在山区这儿,天黑得更快。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
We waited twenty-one years, don't fail us now.
我们等了 21 年了,如今不要让我们失望。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
...communities who feel that the political system has failed them.
对此套政治体制感到失望的群体
柯林斯高阶英语词典
Lawyers are accused of failing in their duties to advise clients of their rights...
律师们被控未尽到告知当事人其正当权利的职责。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
The Workers' Party failed to win a single governorship...
劳工党连一个州长职位也未能赢得。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
He failed in his attempt to take control of the company...
他试图掌控公司,但以失败告终。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
We tried to develop plans for them to get along, which all failed miserably...
我们试图计划让他们好好相处,但均以惨败告终。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
He was afraid the revolution they had started would fail...
他担心他们发起的大变革会遭遇失败。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
Some schools fail to set any homework...
有些学校没有布置任何作业。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
He failed to file tax returns for 1982...
他没有呈报 1982 年的纳税申报单。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
The lights mysteriously failed, and we stumbled around in complete darkness...
灯不知怎么地不亮了,我们在一片黑暗中跌跌撞撞地走着。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
收起实用场景例句真题例句
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Most roads, bridges, transit, water systems, the electric grid, and communications networks were installed 50 to 100 years ago, and they are largely taken for granted until they fail.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文
Another issue affecting real estate in the coming year will be America's failing infrastructure.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文
The biggest concern with robots going against human values is that human beings fail to do sufficient testing and they've produced a system that will break some kind of taboo ( ' , 禁忌 ).
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
States fail when national governments can no longer provide personal security, food security and basic social services such as education and health care.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
Indeed, even before the steep climb in grain prices in 2008, the number of failing states was expanding.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
In the 20th century the main threat to international security was superpower conflict; today it is failing states.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
Failing states are of international concern because they are a source of terrorists, drugs, weapons and refugees ( ' , 难民), threatening political stability everywhere.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
The store’s card reader failed to scan the card’s magnetic stripe.
出自-2016年6月听力原文
Why do some students give up when they encounter difficulty, whereas others who are no more skilled continue to strive and learn? One answer, I soon discovered, lay in people's beliefs about why they had failed.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
They often fail to combine teaching with research.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
After failing again and again, most animals give up hope.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
Many of its 800 stores are likely to close following the company’s decision to call in administrators after an attempt to sell the business for a token £1 failed.
出自-2015年12月听力原文
they often fail to see each other's negative qualities
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
Kodak's decision to file for bankruptcy(破产)protection is a sad, though not unexpected, turning point for a leading American corporation that pioneered consumer photography and dominated the film market for decades, but ultimately failed to adapt to the digital revolution.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
It wasn't that Kodak was blind to the future, said Rebecca Henderson, a professor at Harvard Business School, but rather that it failed to execute on a strategy to confront it
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
Kodak is an example of a firm that was very much aware that they had to adapt, and spent a lot of money trying to do so, but ultimately failed.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
It is harder to predict how Mr Obama's proposed reforms to the failing health-care system will turn out.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
The way in which Mr Jobs revived the failing company he had co-founded and turned it into the world's biggest tech firm (bigger even than Bill Gates's Microsoft, the company that had outsmarted Apple so dramatically in the 1980s), sounds like something from a Hollywood movie.
出自-2012年12月阅读原文
He turned a failing company into a profitable business
出自-2012年12月阅读原文
For example, one who doesn't know the rules a about plagiarism (剽窃) may accidentally use words or ideas without giving proper credit or one who fails to keep careful research notes may unintentionally fail to quote and cite sources as required.
出自-2011年12月阅读原文
Cheating undermines confidence and independence: the cheater is a fraud, and knows that without dishonesty, he/she would have failed.
出自-2011年12月阅读原文
It fails more boys than girls academically
出自-2011年12月阅读原文
It fails to give boys the attention they need.
出自-2011年12月阅读原文
He criticized teachers for failing to recognize that boys are actually more emotional than girls.
出自-2011年12月阅读原文
In the fighting, we not only often fail but can make things worse.
出自-2010年6月阅读原文
Early models often failed to withstand crashes, however, so in 1965 the device was completely redesigned and moved to the rear of the plane – the area least subject to impact – from its original position in the landing wells (起落架舱).
出自-2010年6月阅读原文
I'm self-employed and need the Internet for my work, but I'm failing to accomplish my work,to take care of my home, to give attention to my children," she wrote in a message sent to the group.
出自-2010年6月阅读原文
One of the greatest heartbreaks for fire fighters occurs when they fail to rescue a child from a burning building because the child, frightened by smoke and noise, hides under a bed or in a closet and is later found dead.
出自-2010年12月听力原文
Why did Alex fail to receive the warm response he had hoped for?
出自-2010年6月听力原文
Mike Ellicock,chief executive of National Numeracy said we want to challenge this "I can't do maths" attitude that is prevalent in the UK, adding that it was vital that all primary school teachers understand key maths concepts as young children who fail t
2018年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
States fail when national governments can no longer provide personal security, food security and basic social services such as education and healthcare.
2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
Student tutors feel upset when their teachable agents fail, but happy when these virtual pupils succeed as they derive pride and satisfaction from someone else's accomplishment.
2018年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
The biggest concern with robots going against human values is that human beings fail to do sufficient testing and they've produced a system that will break some kind of taboo.
2016年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
We need very broad participation to fully address the global tragedy that results when countries fail to take into account the negative impact of their carbon emissions on the rest of the world.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文
Overly strict standards often fail, James Bartram, a WHO water-health expert, said.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
But researchers are improving systems to measure a teacher's performance throughout the year, and, with three years of data, it's usually possible to tell which teachers are failing.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
More than 130 U.S.banks failed in 2009.
出自-2016年6月听力原文
More than 130 U.S. banks failed in 2009.
出自-2016年6月听力原文
A new study has failed to find any conclusive evidence that lifestyle changes can prevent cognitive decline in older adults.
出自-2016年6月听力原文
This might not be right, but school-leavers who fail to acknowledge as much risk making the wrong decision about going to university.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
Efforts to create one of the world's largest ocean sanctuaries failed because of Russia's obstruction.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
They fail to give adequate help to the needy students.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
Other initiatives fail to break down the data, too.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
It fails to prepare students to face the challenges of modem times.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
From the standpoint of a traditional educator, this outcome indicated that schooling had failed to help students think about ecosystems and extinction, major scientific ideas.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
Education has failed to lead students to think about major scientific ideas.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
All the forecasts, plans, and anticipations cited above have failed so miserably because their authors and promoters thought the transitions they hoped to implement would proceed unlike all previous energy transitions, and that their progress could be accelerated in an unprecedented manner.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
"Overly strict standards often fail," James Bartram, a WHO water-health expert, said.
2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
But, he says extreme events become disasters only when people fail to prepare for them.
2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
In a world where people are increasingly dependent on their phones, though, such strategies often fail.
2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读
In France, the government has banned supermarkets from throwing away edible foods and imposed harsh penalties on businesses that fail to comply with the regulations.
2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
One of the things that businesses and indeed government organizations often fail to do is to really see what is happening from the consumer's perspective.
2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
As soon as Christiansen saw the photos, he realized why he had failed to spot the caldera.
2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
But the person who tries to do something and fails is a lot better off than the person who tries to do nothing and succeeds.
2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
David Brooks, author of the Social Animal: the Hidden Sources of Love,Character, and Achievement, appears to be the latest in a long line of writers who have failed to resist the temptation.
2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文
Failing to find any other way out, they decided to make a walking journey, as they caught sight of an old.
2018年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文
He failed to find any movie shows on it.
2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 选项
However, greater parental involvement does not necessarily indicate that parents are failing to let go of their "adult" children.
2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
If Balto failed, it would mean disaster for Nome.
2016年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文
I'm not talking about those who fail to get to the top.
2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
Its difficulties appear so great that, however hard we work, we fail again and again.
2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
Other forms of prenatal involvement, including volunteering at school and observing a child's class, also fail to help, according to the most recent study on the topic.
2015年高考英语陕西卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
She failed to get a scholarship.
2018年高考英语全国卷2 听力 选项
Such a view, however, fails to explain the ability of some works of art to excite the human mind across cultures and through centuries.
2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文
The Jazz audience continues to shrink and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with younger generations.
2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
Those words made me see clearly that when I had fallen short in the past, it was seldom because I had tried and failed.
2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
Without fail one would declare, "But I'm just not creative."
2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
Scientists jumped to the rescue with some distinctly shaky evidence to the effect that insects would eat us up if birds failed to control them.
出自-2010年考研翻译原文
Rage Against the Haze failed once state funding was cut.
出自-2012年考研阅读原文
Her critique of the lameness of many pubic-health campaigns is spot-on: they fail to mobilize peer pressure for healthy habits, and they demonstrate a seriously flawed understanding of psychology.
出自-2012年考研阅读原文
Downloading and consuming culture requires great skills, but failing to move beyond downloading is to strip oneself of a defining constituent of humanity.
出自-2012年考研阅读原文
He has failed to understand that monarchies have largely survived because they provide a service – as non-controversial and non-political heads of state.
出自-2015年考研阅读原文
The high court’s decision said the judge in Mr.McDonnell’s trial failed to tell a jury that it must look only at his “official acts,” or the former governor’s decisions on “specific” and “unsettled” issues related to his duties.
出自-2017年考研阅读原文
This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.
出自-2018年考研阅读原文
Every time we fail at something, we can choose to look for the lesson we're meant to learn.
2020年考研真题(英语二)翻译 Section Ⅲ
This has created "a paradox" in that recruiting first-generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has "continued to reproduce and widen, rather than close" an achievement gap based on social class, according to th
2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
收起真题例句英英释义
Verb
1. 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"
2. be unsuccessful;
"Where do today's public schools fail?"
"The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"
3. 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"
4. 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"
5. be unable;
"I fail to understand your motives"
6. judge unacceptable;
"The teacher failed six students"
7. fail to get a passing grade;
"She studied hard but failed nevertheless"
"Did I fail the test?"
8. 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"
9. 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"
10. prove insufficient;
"The water supply for the town failed after a long drought"
11. get worse;
"Her health is declining"
收起英英释义词根词缀
词根: fail
1. =err/deceive,表示"犯错误,欺骗"; 2. = 表示"错,假"
adj.
unfailing 无尽的,无穷的
un无+failing有尽头;失败的→没有尽头的
failing 失败的
fail犯错误,欺骗+ing……的→adj.失败的
n.
failure 失败,不及格;失败者;故障,失灵;未能
fail犯错误,欺骗+ure表名词→错误状态→失败
n.&v.
fail 不及格
fail犯错误,欺骗→v.失败;n.&v.不及格
v.
fail 失败
fail犯错误,欺骗→v.失败;n.&v.不及格
词组搭配
without fail
With no chance of failure
一定,必定:没有失败的可能
Be here at noon without fail.
一定在正午时到这里
收起词组搭配同义词
n.不及格outlosebeflunkunsuccessful
vt.忘记;忽略shortneglectfall
vi.变弱;衰退declinefadeweaken
其他释义neglectloselessenlanguishabortfallcollapsedroopfadebombflopweakendeclineflunkout
反义词
vt. & vi.失败succeed
其他释义passachieveattainsucceed
行业词典
体育
无效 失败
- 释义
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- 实用场景例句
- 真题例句
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- 词根词缀
- 词组搭配
- 同义词
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