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 failing ['feiliŋ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 失败, 缺点

prep. 如果没有...

a. 失败的

[法] 失败, 过失, 缺点


  1. That machine has one big failing.
    那台机器有个大缺点。
  2. Failing instructions I did what I thought was best.
    没有任何指示,我只能按我认为最好的方法去做了。
  3. He was criticized by the committee for failing to report the accident.
    他因未对事故进行汇报而受到委员会的批评。


failing
[ noun ]
  1. a flaw or weak point

  2. <noun.state>
    he was quick to point out his wife's failings
  3. failure to reach a minimum required performance

  4. <noun.act>
    his failing the course led to his disqualification
    he got two flunks on his report
[ adj ]
  1. below acceptable in performance

  2. <adj.all>
    received failing grades


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.


Failing \Fail"ing\, n.
1. A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure;
deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault;
infirmity; as, a mental failing.

And ever in her mind she cast about
For that unnoticed failing in herself. --Tennyson.

2. The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt.

Syn: See {Fault}.

Fail \Fail\, n. [OF. faille, from failir. See {Fail}, v. i.]
1. Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly
superseded by {failure} or {failing}, except in the phrase
without fail. ``His highness' fail of issue.'' --Shak.

2. Death; decease. [Obs.] --Shak.

  1. He was convicted on two counts of filing false income tax returns for failing to report more than $350,000 in income from gambling, autograph signing and baseball memorabilia sales.
  2. The Police and Fire Commission dismissed the most serious allegation, failing to request assistance at the scene.
  3. He said the RTC had scared away investors by failing to set minimum prices and by pulling properties from the initial list released in early August.
  4. The biggest failing, however, comes from showing Marlowe as a Faustus figure believing in Dog not God, leading to lines like 'Dog help me' and 'Dog Almighty'.
  5. Balian has been charged specifically with two counts of violating Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice for failing to heed a lawful order, Dillon said.
  6. The most controversial lobbying effort by Wright was the pressure he put on federal regulators to go easy on Texas thrift institutions that were failing due to a weak economy.
  7. Four police officers filed a libel suit April 24 against the owners of a weekly newspaper after failing in a legal bid to stop the paper from writing about them.
  8. Yugoslavia's federal presidency charged that Slovenia was violating a day-old peace accord by failing to lift a blockade of army units, continuing to hold police prisoners and failing to deactivate territorial defense units.
  9. Yugoslavia's federal presidency charged that Slovenia was violating a day-old peace accord by failing to lift a blockade of army units, continuing to hold police prisoners and failing to deactivate territorial defense units.
  10. If a company does only short-term, incremental innovation, it is failing to prepare for the future. It is hastening the inevitable decline of its business. Most radical innovations are less surprising than they seem.
  11. A protest also was lodged by a Jewish leader in Israel who condemned the treaty for failing to mention the Nazi Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews were killed during World War II.
  12. LaRouche alone is accused of defrauding the Internal Revenue Service by failing to declare personal services, paid for by his organizations, as income.
  13. The driver of the other car was ticketed for failing to use due care, police said.
  14. He charged that the Fed loans, which are repaid by the FDIC if the bank fails, amount to a "backdoor bailout of failing banks." The committee's findings showed, for example, that 377 banks that received long-term credit from the Fed eventually failed.
  15. It is also a tool which institutional investors can use; it is they who can effectively urge reform on boards which are failing to perform.
  16. David Owen resigned as leader of Britain's opposition Social Democratic Party after failing to persuade members to vote against merging with the Liberal Party.
  17. The inquiry report charged authorities at Ahmedabad airport with failing to provide proper navigational aids and meteorological information to the aircraft.
  18. The excuses offered for failing to learn from these experiences range from the serious to the silly.
  19. Turning off lights at public gatherings and failing to repair a house that is dangerous to passersby, or a structure that may fall over, will draw also fines.
  20. Now he's headed for Alaska, temporarily leaving his wife, three boys and a father in failing health to go north to scope things out.
  21. The carpenters union is suing Empire Contract Consulting of New York and its two principals, Paul Adler and Stanley Burns, for failing to properly analyze the investments and advise the union on the loans' performance.
  22. In an interview with the Maariv newspaper, he railed at the government for failing to treat the Arabs as equals, and at himself for not doing enough for them.
  23. Afanasyev called for an end to the Communist Party's monopoly on power, and criticized the congress for failing to take up key questions of economic reform.
  24. His critics say he pays too much attention to western companies offering products few can afford while neglecting housing, transport and other infrastructural problems and failing to combat rising crime. There are problems.
  25. But Mr. Martre says the idea of closer capital ties is "still at square one," failing to develop because both Dassault and Matra seem determined to remain independent.
  26. He became disenchanted with Mrs. Aquino, however, accusing her of failing to crush Communist rebels and rid the government of corruption.
  27. Houk, 39, was accused of twice failing to call the HRS abuse hotline when he received calls about Bradley.
  28. Negotiators in Manila attempted to break a deadlock over the future of U.S. military bases in the Philippines, failing to resolve a dispute over whether Washington has made full payments for the installations.
  29. David A. Case, Corona del Mar, Calif., a former Merrill Lynch salesman, was barred for three years for allegedly failing to make prompt payment for securities bought for his own account.
  30. Some 13,500 lawyers are here this week for the American Bar Association's annual convention, and efforts by spouses and strip-tease barkers to entice them away from speeches and seminars appear to be failing.
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