fail

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 fāl

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A piece of turf cut from grassland.
  2. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action). countable,uncountable
  3. A failing grade in an academic examination. countable,uncountable
  4. A failure (something incapable of success). US,countable,slang,uncountable
  5. Poor quality; substandard workmanship. slang,uncountable
    — The project was full of fail.
动词 v.
  1. To be unsuccessful. intransitive
    — Throughout my life, I have always failed.
  2. Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.) transitive
    — The truck failed to start.
  3. To neglect. transitive
    — The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors.
  4. Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly. intransitive
    — After running five minutes, the engine failed.
  5. To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations. transitive
    — I've failed my parents many times growing up.
  6. To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits. ambitransitive
    — I failed English last year.
  7. To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour. transitive
    — The professor failed me because I did not complete any of the course assignments.
  8. To miss attaining; to lose. obsolete,transitive
    — though that seat of earthly bliss be failed
  9. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
    — The crops failed last year.
  10. To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of. archaic
    — If ever they fail of beauty, this failure is not to be attributed to their size.
  11. To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink. archaic
    — When earnestly they seek / Such proof, conclude they then begin to fail.
  12. To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker. archaic
    — A sick man fails.
  13. To perish; to die; used of a person. obsolete
    — had the king in his last sickness failed
  14. To err in judgment; to be mistaken. obsolete
    — Which ofttimes may succeed, so as perhaps / Shall grieve him, if I fail not.
  15. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent. intransitive
    — "But you cannot tell where she went on leaving here?" Robert asked, despondingly. "No, sir; missus says she believes the lady failed, and that she left sudden like, and didn't want her address to be known in the neighbourhood."
形容词 adj.
  1. Unsuccessful; inadequate; unacceptable in some way. US,slang

词形变化

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词汇关系

反义词
succeed
衍生词
failable fail at life failback fail closed fail-deadly failer fail fast failgirl failing that fail of fail open fail out failover fail over failproof fail-safe fail safe failsoft failson fail up fail up the ladder fail upward fail upwards failure failure to prepare is preparing to fail female-fail god that failed male-fail no-fail pass-fail task failed successfully too big to fail unfail unfailable words fail someone epic fail fail dyke fail-secure fail-soft failtastic fail whale foster fail made of fail without fail
相关词
default fallacy false fault

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Classical Latin fallere
Vulgar Latin *fallīre
Old French falirbor.
Middle English failen
English fail
Inherited from Middle English failen, borrowed from Old French falir, from Vulgar Latin *fallire, alteration of Latin fallere (“to deceive, disappoint”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰāl- (“to lie, deceive”) or Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷʰh₂el- (“to stumble”).
Compare Alemannic German fääle (“to lack”), Cimbrian béelan, véelan (“to fail”), veln (“to be absent, missing”), Dutch falen, feilen (“to fail, miss”), German fallieren, fehlen (“to fail, miss, lack”), Danish fejle (“to fail, err”), Swedish fallera (“to fail, break, malfunction”), Spanish fallar (“to fail, miss”).
词源 2
Unknown. Compare Scottish Gaelic fàl (“hedge”), Scots faill (“turf”). Attested from the 16th century.
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