failure

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈfeɪ.ljə/    美 /ˈfeɪ.ljəɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success. countable,uncountable
    — For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
  2. State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.; A condition in which a specified organ does not function well enough to support life. countable,uncountable
    — heart failure
  3. Omission to do something, whether or not it was attempted, especially something that ought to have been done. countable,uncountable
  4. An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure, has failed at something or incapable of success. countable,uncountable
  5. Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function; breakdown. countable,uncountable
    — Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.
  6. Bankruptcy. countable,uncountable

词形变化

failures plural

词汇关系

近义词
fail
反义词
success triumph
下位词
dam failure failure to launch failure to thrive fiasco ground failure market failure power failure single-point failure structural failure
衍生词
acute kidney failure acute renal failure congestive cardiac failure failure drill failure is the best teacher failureless failureproof failure rate failure to prepare is preparing to fail girlfailure government failure mean distance between failure mean time to failure microfailure nonfailure postfailure single point of failure tree failure
相关词
fail fail-fast fail-safe fail-stop

词源

From Anglo-Norman failer, from Old French faillir (“to fail”). Equivalent to fail + -ure.
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