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fail

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 [feɪl]
  • 美式音标 [feɪl]
  • 国际音标 [feil]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • vi. 失败，不及格；破产；缺乏；衰退
  • vt. 不及格；使失望；忘记；舍弃
  • n. 不及格
  • n. (Fail)人名；(葡、捷)法伊尔；(法)法伊

词源解说

  • 1200年左右进入英语，直接源自古法语的falir，意为失败，不足；最初源自拉丁语的fallere，意为欺骗，失望。

同根派生

  • adj性质的同根词
    failed：已失败的，不成功的。
    failing：失败的。
  • n性质的同根词
    failure：失败；故障；失败者；破产。
    failing：失败；缺点，过失；弱点。
  • prep性质的同根词
    failing：如果没有…。
  • v性质的同根词
    failed：失败，不成功（fail的过去式和过去分词）。
    failing：失败；不及格（fail的ing形式）。

用法辨析

    v. (动词)

  • fail的基本意思是“失败”,指在从事某项工作时未能达到预定的目的,常常强调做了,但是没有成功; 还可指由于某事未能在头脑里形成深刻的印象或其他原因而将某事“忘记”。fail引申可指“不足,短缺,缺乏”“衰退,衰弱”“破产”“辜负”等。
  • fail可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时接名词、代词或动词不定式作宾语。
  • fail在作“不能,不会,不成功”解时,其后只能搭用不定式短语或介词in。
  • fail在作“亏损”“销蚀”解时可用于进行体,此时多指人的体质。
  • fail是表示状态的及物动词,不能用于被动结构。

    • n. (名词)

  • fail用作名词时的意思是“考试不及格”,指在考试中失利,从而没能通过考试。常以单数形式出现。
  • fail常用于without fail句型,表示“一定,必定,肯定”。

英汉例句

    用作动词 (v.)

    用作不及物动词: S+～(+A)

  • If you don't work hard, you may fail.
    不努力就可能失败。

    • 用作及物动词: S+～+ n./pron.

  • He would have succeeded if his courage hadn't failed him.
    如果他当时没有失去勇气,他就成功了。

    • S+～+to- v

  • I failed to see him. He was out.
    我没见到他,他出去了。

    • 其他: v -ing as Attrib.

  • He has suffered from failing health for the last two years.
    近两年来,他的健康状况每况愈下。

    • v -ing as Adverb.

  • Failing that, we must think of another plan.
    这要是不行,我们就得另想办法。

    • 用作名词 (n.)

  • Some college courses are graded in terms of either a pass or a fail.
    有些大学课程按及格或不及格打分。

词组短语

    用作动词 (v.)

    ～+名词

  • fail a friend 使朋友感到失望,辜负朋友,抛弃朋友
  • fail an exam 考试不及格

    • ～+副词

  • fail abjectly 惨败
  • fail absolutely 绝对不足
  • fail apparently 明显地不足
  • fail completely 完全地失败

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • (NOT SUCCEED) to not succeed in what you are trying to achieve or are expected to do
  • (EXAM) to be unsuccessful, or to judge that someone has been unsuccessful, in a test or exam
  • (NOT DO) to not do something that you should do
  • (STOP) to become weaker or stop working completely
  • (NOT HELP) to not help someone when you are expected to do so
  • an unsuccessful result in a course, test, or exam
  • If you do something without fail, you always do it.

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you fail to do something that you were trying to do, you are unable to do it or do not succeed in doing it.
  • If an activity, attempt, or plan fails, it is not successful.
  • If someone or something fails to do a particular thing that they should have done, they do not do it.
  • If something fails, it stops working properly, or does not do what it is supposed to do.
  • If a business, organization, or system fails, it becomes unable to continue in operation or in existence.
  • If something such as your health or a physical quality is failing, it is becoming gradually weaker or less effective.
  • If someone fails you, they do not do what you had expected or trusted them to do.
  • If someone fails a test, examination, or course, they perform badly in it and do not reach the standard that is required.
  • Fail is also a noun.
  • If someone fails you in a test, examination, or course, they judge that you have not reached a high enough standard in it.
  • You say if all else fails to suggest what could be done in a certain situation if all the other things you have tried are unsuccessful.
  • You use without fail to emphasize that something always happens.
  • You use without fail to emphasize an order or a promise.

专业释义

    教育学

  • 使…不及格；使…失败：
  • 没有通过…的考试：
  • (考试)不及格
  • 不及格

    • 商业

  • 无力交割，交割失信，不按时交割，不履行证券交接(证券经纪人不能于成交后的预定期限内交割证券)

    • 计算机科学技术

  • 失效