fault
fault 英 [fɔ:lt] 美 [fɔlt]
n. 过错，责任；缺点；毛病 vt. 挑剔
进行时:faulting 过去式:faulted 过去分词:faulted 第三人称单数:faults 名词复数:faults
- A fault is an error caused by ignorance, bad judgment or inattention. If you're a passenger, it might be your fault that your friend missed the exit, if you were supposed to be watching for it, not sleeping.
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- n. 过错，责任；缺点；毛病
- vt. 挑剔
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1. Why should I say sorry when it's not my fault?
不是我的错为什么要我道歉？
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2. It's nobody's fault.
谁都没有错。
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3. It was his fault that we were late.
我们迟到责任在他。
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4. It's your own fault for being careless.
你粗心大意是你自己的过失。
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5. He's proud of his children and blind to their faults.
他为孩子们感到自豪，对他们的缺点视而不见。
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6. a major fault in the design
设计中的一个重大失误
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7. He had always been polite—she couldn't fault him on that.
他总是彬彬有礼，在这方面她对他无可指摘。
- fault (n.) late 13c., faute, "deficiency," from Old French faute, earlier falte, "opening, gap; failure, flaw, blemish; lack, deficiency" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *fallita "a shortcoming, falling," from Latin falsus "deceptive, feigned, spurious," past participle of fallere "deceive, disappoint" (see fail (v.)).
- fault (v.) "find fault with," mid-15c. from fault (n.). Earlier it was used in an intransitive sense of "be deficient" (late 14c., Scottish). Related: Faulted; faulter; faulting.
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