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fail AHD[fāl] D.J.[feɪl]K.K.[fel]v.（动词）failed, fail.ing, fails v.intr.（不及物动词）- To prove deficient or lacking; perform ineffectively or inadequately.表现欠佳：证明不足或不够；活动受损或不充足
- To be unsuccessful:失败：不成功：a valiant attempt that failed.虽败犹荣
- To receive an academic grade below the acceptable minimum.不及格：达到的学术等级低于最低限度
- To prove insufficient in quantity or duration; give out:用尽：数量或持续时间证明为不足；用完：The water supply failed during the drought.在干旱期供水不足
- To fall short, as in what is expected of one:未达成：不能达到别人所期望的：failed in her obligations to the family.她对家庭没有尽到责任
- To decline, as in strength or effectiveness:减弱：力量减弱或功能衰退：The patient's heart failed.病人的心跳减弱
- To cease functioning properly:彻底中止运转：The engine failed.引擎彻底停止了运转
- To become bankrupt or insolvent:破产：Our family business failed in 1929.1929年我们家族破产了
v.tr.（及物动词）- To disappoint or prove undependable to:使失望或不可信赖：Our sentries failed us.我们的哨兵令我们失望
- To abandon; forsake:抛弃；放弃：His strength failed him.他丧失了力气
- To omit to perform (an expected duty, for example):遗漏未做：忽略而未能完成（例如，所期望的任务）："We must . . . hold . . . those horrors up to the light of justice. Otherwise we would fail our inescapable obligation to the victims of Nazism: to remember"(Anthony Lewis)“记住：我们必须将那些惨事交付法庭审判。否则，对遭受法西斯主义迫害的人，我们将无法尽到应尽的责任”(安东尼·刘易斯)
- To leave (something) undone; neglect:疏忽：留下（某事）没做完；疏忽：failed to wash the dishes.忘了洗盘子
- To receive an academic grade below the acceptable minimum in (a course, for example):不及格：达到的学术等级低于能接受的最低限度（如某门课程）：failed algebra twice.代数两次不及格
- To give such a grade of failure to (a student):给（学生）不及格：failed me in algebra.给我代数不及格
n.（名词）- Failure to deliver securities to a purchaser within a specified time.保证失信：未能在特定时间内将保证金交给买主
- Failure to receive the proceeds of a transaction, as in the sale of stock or securities, by a specified date.交割失信：在股票或抵押品售出后，未能在规定日期内办理交接手续
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
- Middle English failen 中古英语 failen
- from Old French faillir 源自 古法语 faillir
- from Vulgar Latin *fallīre 源自 俗拉丁语 *fallīre
- variant of Latin fallere [to deceive] 拉丁语 fallere的变体 [欺骗]
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