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IELTS BNC: 1147 COCA: 1360
failure
fljəʳ ˈfeɪljər
Word forms: plural failures
1 N-UNCOUNT 失败;不成功 Failure is a lack of success in doing or achieving something, especially in relation to a particular activity. 失败;不成功
  • This policy is doomed to failure.

    这项政策注定会失败。

  • Three attempts on the British 200-metre record also ended in failure.

    对英国 200 米纪录发起的3 次冲击也均以失败而告终。

  • ...feelings of failure.

    挫败感

SYN lack of success, defeat, collapse, abortion
2 N-COUNT 失败的事;败绩 If something is a failure, it is not a success. 失败的事;败绩
  • The marriage was a failure and they both wanted to be free of it.

    他们的婚姻很失败,两人都想摆脱它。

  • 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。

SYN catastrophe, disaster, fiasco, let-down
3 N-COUNT 失败者;一事无成的人 If you say that someone is a failure, you mean that they have not succeeded in a particular activity, or that they are unsuccessful at everything they do. 失败者;一事无成的人
  • Elgar received many honors and much acclaim and yet he often considered himself a failure.

    人们对埃尔加赞誉有加,但他却常觉得自己是个失败者。

  • I just felt I had been a failure in my personal life.

    我就是觉得我的个人生活很失败。

SYN loser, disappointment, no-good, flop [informal]
4 N-UNCOUNT [NOUN to-infinitive, oft poss NOUN] 没做到;不履行 Your failure to do a particular thing is the fact that you do not do it, even though you were expected to do it. 没做到;不履行
  • She accused the Foreign Office of disgraceful failure to support British citizens arrested overseas.

    她指责说,外交部未能给在海外被捕的英国公民提供支持是可耻的。

  • ...their failure to get the product mix right.

    他们没有把产品组合弄对

5 N-VAR [oft n NOUN] (机器的)故障,失灵;(身体机能的)衰竭 If there is a failure of something, for example a machine or part of the body, it goes wrong and stops working or developing properly. (机器的)故障,失灵;(身体机能的)衰竭
  • There were also several accidents mainly caused by engine failures on take-off.

    还有几次事故主要是起飞时引擎出现故障造成的。

  • He was being treated for kidney failure.

    他因肾衰竭正在接受治疗。

  • Researchers found an almost total crop failure and a severe shortage of drinking water.

    研究者们发现作物几乎颗粒无收,并且饮用水严重短缺。

SYN breakdown, stalling, cutting out, malfunction
6 N-VAR 破产;倒闭 If there is a failure of a business or bank, it is no longer able to continue operating. 破产;倒闭 [business]
  • Business failures rose 16% last month.

    上个月倒闭公司的数量上升了 16%。

7 N-VAR [NOUN of n] 缺乏;不足;不够 If you say that someone has a failure of a particular quality or ability, you mean that they do not have enough of it. 缺乏;不足;不够
  • There is, too, a simple failure of imagination.

    还有,就是纯粹缺乏想象力。

  • He remained on his knees for a long time afterwards, ashamed by his failure of nerve.

    他后来在地上跪了很久,为自己缺乏胆量而感到羞耻。

Quotations
There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip R.B. Barham The Ingoldsby Legends
A failure is a stranger in his own house Eric Hoffer The Passionate State of Mind
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object John Keats Endymion
There is no failure except in no longer trying Elbert Hubbard The Note Book
Word Partnership
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ADJ.

afraid of failure, doomed to failure 1

complete failure 1 3 4

dismal failure 3 4

N.

feelings of failure, risk of failure, success or failure 1

engine failure, heart failure, kidney failure, liver failure 5

business failure 6

VERB.

failure to communicate 1 2

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