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a. 已失败的

[计] 失败的


  1. I tried to fix the equipment but I failed.
    我想把机器修理好,但是失败了。
  2. The business faltered and then failed.
    商行生意衰退,最后倒闭了。
  3. Their business has failed and is in the hands of the receiver.
    他们的公司垮了,现在由破产管理人管理。



Fail \Fail\ (f[=a]l) v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Failed} (f[=a]ld); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Failing}.] [F. failir, fr. L. fallere, falsum,
to deceive, akin to E. fall. See {Fail}, and cf. {Fallacy},
{False}, {Fault}.]
1. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in
any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be
furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be
altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams
fail; crops fail.

As the waters fail from the sea. --Job xiv. 11.

Till Lionel's issue fails, his should not reign.
--Shak.

2. To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be
deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.

If ever they fail of beauty, this failure is not be
attributed to their size. --Berke.

3. To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay;
to sink.

When earnestly they seek
Such proof, conclude they then begin to fail.
--Milton.

4. To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources,
etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.

5. To perish; to die; -- used of a person. [Obs.]

Had the king in his last sickness failed. --Shak.

6. To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to
be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not
to fulfill expectation.

Take heed now that ye fail not to do this. --Ezra
iv. 22.

Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale.
--Shak.

7. To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired;
to be baffled or frusrated.

Our envious foe hath failed. --Milton.

8. To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

Which ofttimes may succeed, so as perhaps
Shall grieve him, if I fail not. --Milton.

9. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to
be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business
obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent; as, many
credit unions failed in the late 1980's.

failed \failed\ adj.
unsuccessful. Opposite of {successful}.

Syn: failing.
[WordNet 1.5]

  1. Executive Life attracted eight bids before a deadline in a court-supervised auction of the failed insurer.
  2. Bright Banc, with $3.1 billion in assets, is the biggest failed thrift in Texas and the largest yet sold by the Resolution Trust Corp.
  3. Teikoku Data Bank said 68 real estate companies with debts totaling 143.3 billion yen failed in April under the weight of continued high interest rates and government controls on lending.
  4. The suit accuses 23 U.S. and foreign banks of antitrust, banking and other violations after they failed to come to terms on restructuring loans to the Hunt companies.
  5. The last launch of a Titan 34D was from Florida on Sept. 2, but sources told The Associated Press it failed to orbit its payload because the rocket's third stage failed to reignite.
  6. The last launch of a Titan 34D was from Florida on Sept. 2, but sources told The Associated Press it failed to orbit its payload because the rocket's third stage failed to reignite.
  7. The Sinhalese front, outlawed after a failed 1971 coup, contends that the pact makes too many concessions to the Tamils and has vowed to block it.
  8. Although it failed, it had a long-term effect on the future relations of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, and in 1867, the Hungarians were given a series of unprecedented privileges.
  9. "Disappointment about the dollar's decline and also that the expected post-election rally failed to appear has put buyers on the selling side again."
  10. The white paper failed to guarantee a larger market for coal by elbowing aside other forms of energy.
  11. Little legislation has moved through the Congress so far this year, with most of the time spent on the failed plan to raise congressional pay and the Senate battle over the nomination of John Tower for defense secretary.
  12. He also failed to report $2.2 million of that money to the Internal Revenue Service, the indictment charges.
  13. On the $1 coin, Geiger said the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin failed to become popular because it was not easily distinguished from the quarter and because it was introduced as an alternative to the paper dollar, rather than a replacement.
  14. In 1990, back in Chechnya, he took part in the republic's national congress and so impressed its members that he was elected leader. The failed August coup of 1991 gave Gen Dudayev his opportunity to break away from Russia.
  15. 3M also failed to follow up with its customers after it determined that its air guns were leaking, the NRC inspection summary said.
  16. U.S. Army helicopters scoured the Caribbean for a Nicaraguan cargo plane with a crew of six that failed to arrive on schedule Tuesday at Costa Rica's port city of Limon.
  17. I don't feel like a valued customer." AT&T's long-distance network, after decades of reliability, has failed four times in two years.
  18. The firm acquired the bonds, which have been trading in the 50 cents on the dollar range, about the time Revco failed to make a $46 million semiannual interest payment on the junk bonds last June.
  19. But they all failed to settle the quarrel over whether the Khmer Rouge should participate in Cambodia's political future.
  20. As for Unilever, it had obviously failed to anticipate how violently P&G would react and how ill-equipped it was to handle the onslaught. Until the end of May the Anglo-Dutch company just about managed to hold its own with consumers.
  21. Guild members voted by a larger than 20-1 margin last week for the authorization after contract talks that began nearly a year ago failed to result in an agreement.
  22. Treasury officials said $15 billion of this year's borrowing will be used to replace high-rate certificates of deposit at some of the 262 failed thrifts already under government control.
  23. The dollar rose 1.4% against the yen Monday after the G-7 failed to boost the yen, as was widely expected.
  24. The move comes about a month after the Belzbergs failed to seat three of four nominees on the Armstrong board and the state enacted legislation that requires corporate raiders to surrender short-term profits from thwarted takeover bids.
  25. Two warrants were issued for her arrest after she failed to make court appearances for her February offenses.
  26. "Investigators have found, after extensive testing, that the interior tail cone release mechanism failed to separate the tail cone and deploy the emergency slide," National Transportation Safety Board member John Lauber said.
  27. Last Thursday, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Burton R. Lifland approved the sale to Trump, after America West failed to secure financing for its offer by a Wednesday deadline set by Eastern.
  28. In the one-store hamlet of Spotted Horse, former roustabout Craig McGee, a slight man in scuffed boots and torn jeans, downs a beer and reviews his job search: tried to get hired as a dogcatcher but wasn't qualified, tried for a jailer's job but failed.
  29. Autopsies after the two bodies were exhumed failed to determine the cause of the two deaths, authorities said.
  30. Adkin says two Army Rangers also died when their parachutes failed to open.
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