failure
英 ['fe?lj?]
美['felj?]
- n. 失败；故障；失败者；破产
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词态变化
复数:?failures;
中文词源
failure 失败
来自fail, 失败。
英文词源
- failure (n.)
- 1640s, failer, "a failing, deficiency," also "act of failing," from Anglo-French failer, Old French falir "be lacking; not succeed" (see fail (v.)). The verb in Anglo-French used as a noun; ending altered 17c. in English to conform with words in -ure. Meaning "thing or person considered as a failure" is from 1837.
双语例句
- 1. Failure is never quite so frightening as regret do.
- 比失败更令人恐惧的是懊悔。
来自金山词霸 每日一句
- 2. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.--Winston Churchill
- 成功不是终点，失败也并非末日，最重要的是继续前进的勇气。
来自金山词霸 每日一句
- 3. It is the easy way out to blame others for our failure.
- 把我们的失败归罪到别人头上倒是省事。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Those who fail incline to blame the world for their failure.
- 那些失败者往往将他们的失败归咎于社会。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. His six-year transition programme has by no means been a complete failure.
- 他的六年转型计划绝没有彻底失败。
来自柯林斯例句