fail
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
- 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。
- 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”。
v. (动词)
n. (名词)
英汉例句
- If you don't work hard, you may fail.
不努力就可能失败。 - 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。 - I failed to see him. He was out.
我没见到他,他出去了。 - 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。 - Failing that, we must think of another plan.
这要是不行,我们就得另想办法。 - 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。
用作动词 (v.)
用作不及物动词: S+～(+A)
用作及物动词: S+～+ n./pron.
S+～+to- v
其他: v -ing as Attrib.
v -ing as Adverb.
用作名词 (n.)
词组短语
- 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
- fail abjectly 惨败
- fail absolutely 绝对不足
- fail apparently 明显地不足
- fail completely 完全地失败
用作动词 (v.)
～+名词
～+副词
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.
- 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.
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专业释义
- 使…不及格；使…失败：
- 没有通过…的考试：
- (考试)不及格
- 不及格
- 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)
- 失效