failure
failure 英 [ˈfeɪljə(r)] 美 ['feɪljər]
n. 失败;故障;失败者;破产
名词复数:failures
- If you experience failure, things have not gone the way you'd hoped. I'm sorry to hear that your attempt to turn hay into gold has been a failure.
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- n. 失败;故障;失败者;破产
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1. The attempt was doomed to failure.
这项尝试注定失败。
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2. All my efforts ended in failure.
我的一切努力最后都无济于事。
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3. He was a failure as a teacher.
他当教师并不成功。
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4. the failure of the United Nations to maintain food supplies
联合国未能维持粮食供应
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5. patients suffering from heart failure
心脏、肾等衰竭的病人
- 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.
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