failure
英 ['fe?lj?]
美['felj?]
- n. 失敗；故障；失敗者；破產
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詞態變化
復數:?failures;
中文詞源
failure 失敗
來自fail, 失敗。
英文詞源
- failure (n.)
- 1640s, failer, "a failing, deficiency," also "act of failing," from Anglo-French failer, Old French falir "be lacking; not succeed" (see fail (v.)). The verb in Anglo-French used as a noun; ending altered 17c. in English to conform with words in -ure. Meaning "thing or person considered as a failure" is from 1837.
雙語例句
- 1. Failure is never quite so frightening as regret do.
- 比失敗更令人恐懼的是懊悔。
來自金山詞霸 每日一句
- 2. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.--Winston Churchill
- 成功不是終點，失敗也并非末日，最重要的是繼續前進的勇氣。
來自金山詞霸 每日一句
- 3. It is the easy way out to blame others for our failure.
- 把我們的失敗歸罪到別人頭上倒是省事。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Those who fail incline to blame the world for their failure.
- 那些失敗者往往將他們的失敗歸咎于社會。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. His six-year transition programme has by no means been a complete failure.
- 他的六年轉型計劃絕沒有徹底失敗。
來自柯林斯例句