fails

英 [feɪlz]

美 [feɪlz]

v.  失败; 未能(做到); 未做; 未履行(某事); 不及格; 评定不及格
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柯林斯词典

• VERB 失败;未能够;未做成
  If youfailto do something that you were trying to do, you are unable to do it or do not succeed in doing it.
  1. The Workers' Party failed to win a single governorship...
     劳工党连一个州长职位也未能赢得。
  2. He failed in his attempt to take control of the company...
     他试图掌控公司，但以失败告终。
  3. Many of us have tried to lose weight and failed miserably...
     我们中很多人都努力要减肥，无奈均以惨败告终。
  4. The truth is, I'm a failed comedy writer really.
     事实上，我真的是个很失败的喜剧作家。
• VERB (活动、尝试、计划等)失败，不成功
  If an activity, attempt, or planfails, it is not successful.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. After a failed military offensive, all government troops and police were withdrawn from the island.
     在一次军事进攻失败之后，所有政府军和警察均从岛上撤离了。
• VERB 没有做，未做(应做的事)
  If someone or somethingfailsto do a particular thing that they should have done, they do not do it.
  1. Some schools fail to set any homework...
     有些学校没有布置任何作业。
  2. He failed to file tax returns for 1982...
     他没有呈报 1982 年的纳税申报单。
  3. The bomb failed to explode.
     炸弹没有爆炸。
• VERB 出故障;失灵
  If somethingfails, it stops working properly, or does not do what it is supposed to do.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• VERB (企业)倒闭，破产;(机构)解体;(体系)崩溃
  If a business, organization, or systemfails, it becomes unable to continue in operation or in existence.
  1. So far this year, 104 banks have failed.
     今年到目前为止，已有 104 家银行倒闭。
  2. ...a failed hotel business...
     破产的酒店
  3. Who wants to buy a computer from a failing company?
     谁愿意从一家要倒闭的公司买计算机呢？
• VERB (健康状况、体质等)衰弱，虚弱，衰退
  If something such as your health or a physical qualityis failing, it is becoming gradually weaker or less effective.
  1. He was 58, and his health was failing rapidly...
     他 58 岁，身体正在迅速衰老。
  2. Here in the hills, the light failed more quickly...
     在山区这儿，天黑得更快。
  3. An apparently failing memory is damaging for a national leader.
     明显的记忆力衰退对一个国家领导人来说极为不利。
• VERB 辜负;使失望
  If someonefailsyou, they do not do what you had expected or trusted them to do.
  1. 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。
  2. ...communities who feel that the political system has failed them.
     对此套政治体制感到失望的群体
• VERB 不履行，未尽(职责)
  If someonefails intheir duty orfails intheir responsibilities, they do not do everything that they have a duty or a responsibility to do.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• VERB (品质或能力)有负于;(使)不如愿;不够
  If a quality or ability that you havefailsyou, or if itfails, it is not good enough in a particular situation to enable you to do what you want to do.
  1. For once, the artist's fertile imagination failed him...
     这位画家丰富的想象力曾一度枯竭。
  2. 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。
• VERB 不及格
  If someonefailsa test, examination, or course, they perform badly in it and do not reach the standard that is required.
  1. I lived in fear of failing my end-of-term exams.
     我总是担心期末考试不及格。
  2. Failis also a noun.
     
  3. It's the difference between a pass and a fail.
     这是及格和不及格的差别。
• VERB 评定…不及格;使不及格
  If someonefailsyou in a test, examination, or course, they judge that you have not reached a high enough standard in it.
  1. ...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
• PHRASE 如果其他一切都不奏效的话;假如其他都行不通
  You sayif all else failsto suggest what could be done in a certain situation if all the other things you have tried are unsuccessful.
  1. 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。
• PHRASE (用以表示不赞成)不明白，看不出
  You can useI fail to seeorI fail to understandin order to introduce a statement which indicates that you do not agree with what someone has said or done.
  1. 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。
• PHRASE 总是;一直
  You usewithout failto emphasize that something always happens.
  1. He attended every meeting without fail.
     他逢会必到。
• PHRASE (用以强调命令或承诺)一定，必须
  You usewithout failto emphasize an order or a promise.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• She writes well, but fails in imagination.
  她文笔很好，但写出的东西缺乏想象力。
• They have a generator when the electricity fails
  他们有一台发电机，以备停电时所需。
• His production of Harold Pinter's play fails to impart a sense of excitement or danger.
  他所执导的哈罗德·品特的剧作没能表现出紧张、危险感。
• The downside is that if this fails, we would need to restore the system from a mksysb backup.
  不好的一面是如果此操作失败，我们将需要从一个mksysb备份恢复此系统。
• If he fails, then he will have little excuse in the eyes of those who voted him in
  如果他落败，那他在那些投票支持他的人眼中基本就没有什么借口了。
• 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。
• The State fails to recognize the heavy responsibility that parents take on
  政府没有认识到家长所承担的重大责任。
• One possible solution, if all else fails, is to take legal action
  如果其他办法都不行，还有一种可能是提起诉讼。
• Farmers are angry because the rise fails to keep pace with inflation.
  农民们很气愤，因为提价赶不上通货膨胀。
• Our understanding often fails to keep pace with the march of events.
  我们的认识常常赶不上形势的发展。