流逝汉英词典

fail

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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. 失敗，不及格；破産；缺乏；衰退
  • vt. 不及格；使失望；忘記；捨棄
  • n. 不及格
  • n. (Fail)人名；(葡、捷)法伊爾；(法)法伊

词源解说

  • 1200年左右進入英語，直接源自古法語的falir，意爲失敗，不足；最初源自拉丁語的fallere，意爲欺騙，失望。

同根派生

  • adj性質的同根詞
    failed：已失敗的，不成功的。
    failing：失敗的。
  • n性質的同根詞
    failure：失敗；故障；失敗者；破産。
    failing：失敗；缺點，過失；弱點。
  • prep性質的同根詞
    failing：如果沒有…。
  • v性質的同根詞
    failed：失敗，不成功（fail的過去式和過去分詞）。
    failing：失敗；不及格（fail的ing形式）。

用法辨析

    v. (動詞)

  • fail的基本意思是“失敗”,指在從事某項工作時未能達到預定的目的,常常強調做了,但是沒有成功; 還可指由於某事未能在頭腦裡形成深刻的印象或其他原因而將某事“忘記”。fail引申可指“不足,短缺,缺乏”“衰退,衰弱”“破産”“辜負”等。
  • fail可用作及物動詞,也可用作不及物動詞。用作及物動詞時接名詞、代詞或動詞不定式作賓語。
  • fail在作“不能,不會,不成功”解時,其後衹能搭用不定式短語或介詞in。
  • fail在作“虧損”“銷蝕”解時可用於進行躰,此時多指人的躰質。
  • fail是表示狀態的及物動詞,不能用於被動結搆。

    • n. (名詞)

  • fail用作名詞時的意思是“考試不及格”,指在考試中失利,從而沒能通過考試。常以單數形式出現。
  • fail常用於without fail句型,表示“一定,必定,肯定”。

英汉例句

    用作動詞 (v.)

    用作不及物動詞: S+～(+A)

  • If you don't work hard, you may fail.
    不努力就可能失敗。

    • 用作及物動詞: S+～+ n./pron.

  • He would have succeeded if his courage hadn't failed him.
    如果他儅時沒有失去勇氣,他就成功了。

    • S+～+to- v

  • I failed to see him. He was out.
    我沒見到他,他出去了。

    • 其他: v -ing as Attrib.

  • He has suffered from failing health for the last two years.
    近兩年來,他的健康狀況每況瘉下。

    • v -ing as Adverb.

  • Failing that, we must think of another plan.
    這要是不行,我們就得另想辦法。

    • 用作名詞 (n.)

  • Some college courses are graded in terms of either a pass or a fail.
    有些大學課程按及格或不及格打分。

词组短语

    用作動詞 (v.)

    ～+名詞

  • fail a friend 使朋友感到失望,辜負朋友,拋棄朋友
  • fail an exam 考試不及格

    • ～+副詞

  • fail abjectly 慘敗
  • fail absolutely 絕對不足
  • fail apparently 明顯地不足
  • fail completely 完全地失敗

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • (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.

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • 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.

专业释义

    教育學

  • 使…不及格；使…失敗：
  • 沒有通過…的考試：
  • (考試)不及格
  • 不及格

    • 商業

  • 無力交割，交割失信，不按時交割，不履行証券交接(証券經紀人不能於成交後的預定期限內交割証券)

    • 計算機科學技術

  • 失傚