failing

名词 n. 动词 v. 介词 prep.
中文释义
美 /ˈfeɪ.lɪŋ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. weakness; defect
    — His worst failing is his temper.
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of fail form-of,gerund,participle,present
    — As we breasted the first summit, the precipitous mass of the Raven's Rock, towering some 250 ft. above the railway, looked grim and forbidding in the failing light, and distant Ben Wyves was shrouded in mist.
介词 prep.
  1. If what follows is not possible; without.
    — A large proportion of the females employed in other firms are said to have signified their intention of going on strike, failing a settlement.

词形变化

failings plural
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