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failure
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音标：英 ['feɪljə] 美 ['feljɚ]
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解释：
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n. 失败；故障；失败者；破产
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中文词源：
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failure 失败来自fail, 失败。
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英文词源：
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failure (n.)
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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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双语例句：
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1. Failure is never quite so frightening as regret do.
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比失败更令人恐惧的是懊悔。
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来自金山词霸 每日一句
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2. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.--Winston Churchill
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成功不是终点，失败也并非末日，最重要的是继续前进的勇气。
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来自金山词霸 每日一句
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3. It is the easy way out to blame others for our failure.
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把我们的失败归罪到别人头上倒是省事。
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来自柯林斯例句
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4. Those who fail incline to blame the world for their failure.
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那些失败者往往将他们的失败归咎于社会。
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来自柯林斯例句
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5. His six-year transition programme has by no means been a complete failure.
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他的六年转型计划绝没有彻底失败。
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来自柯林斯例句
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更多相关例句：
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The success or failure of the plan depends on you.
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这项计划的成败取决于你。【牛津词典】
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The attempt was doomed to failure .
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这项尝试注定失败。【牛津词典】
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All my efforts ended in failure .
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我的一切努力最后都无济于事。【牛津词典】
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the problems of economic failure and increasing unemployment
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经济失败和失业人数增加这些问题【牛津词典】
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She is still coming to terms with the failure of her marriage.
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她还在努力适应婚姻失败的事实。【牛津词典】
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The whole thing was a complete failure.
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整个事情彻底失败了。【牛津词典】
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He was a failure as a teacher.
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他当教师并不成功。【牛津词典】
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the failure of the United Nations to maintain food supplies
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联合国未能维持粮食供应【牛津词典】
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Failure to comply with the regulations will result in prosecution.
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不遵守规章制度将被起诉。【牛津词典】
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patients suffering from heart/kidney, etc. failure
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心脏、肾等衰竭的病人【牛津词典】
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A power failure plunged everything into darkness.
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电源故障使一切陷入黑暗。【牛津词典】
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The cause of the crash was given as engine failure.
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撞车事故的原因被认定是发动机故障。【牛津词典】
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His six-year transition programme has by no means been a complete failure.
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他的六年转型计划绝没有彻底失败。【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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Elgar received many honors and much acclaim and yet he often considered himself a failure...
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人们对埃尔加赞誉有加，但他却常觉得自己是个失败者。【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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I just felt I had been a failure in my personal life.
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我就是觉得我的个人生活很失败。【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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She accused the Foreign Office of disgraceful failure to support British citizens arrested overseas.
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她指责说，外交部未能给在海外被捕的英国公民提供支持是可耻的。【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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...their failure to get the product mix right.
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他们没有把产品组合弄对【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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There were also several accidents mainly caused by engine failures on take-off...
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还有几次事故主要是起飞时引擎出现故障造成的。【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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He was being treated for kidney failure...
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他因肾衰竭正在接受治疗。【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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Business failures rose 16% last month.
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上个月倒闭公司的数量上升了 16％。【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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There is, too, a simple failure of imagination...
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还有，就是纯粹缺乏想象力。【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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He remained on his knees for a long time afterwards, ashamed by his failure of nerve.
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他后来在地上跪了很久，为自己缺乏胆量而感到羞耻。【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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The marriage was a failure and they both wanted to be free of it...
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他们的婚姻很失败，两人都想摆脱它。【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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This policy is doomed to failure...
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这项政策注定会失败。【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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Three attempts on the British 200-metre record also ended in failure.
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对英国 200 米纪录发起的3 次冲击也均以失败而告终。【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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The report's writers state that America's failure to invest in infrastructure impacts not only the health of the real-estate market, but also our ability to remain globally competitive.【出自-2017年6月阅读原文】
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Our continuing failure to deal with the environmental declines that are undermining the world food economy forces me to conclude that such a collapse is possible.【出自-2016年6月阅读原文】
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But it’s one of many low- tech fixes for high-tech failures that people without engineering degrees have discovered, often out of desperation and shared.【出自-2016年6月听力原文】
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Students' belief about the cause of their failure explains their attitude toward setbacks.【出自-2016年12月阅读原文】
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I realized these different types of students not only explain their failures differently, but they also hold different theories of intelligence.【出自-2016年12月阅读原文】
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Animal experiments by psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania had shown that after repeated failures, most animals conclude that a situation is hopeless and beyond their control.【出自-2016年12月阅读原文】
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His mother, convinced that she had to do something dramatic to prevent him from leading a life of failure, lay down some rules.【出自-2015年12月听力原文】
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Its failure to see Fuji photo's emergence.【出自-2013年6月阅读原文】
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For those who have suffered failures in business, Steve Jobs's life experience serves as.【出自-2012年12月阅读原文】
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If you hear that yours isn't doing well in math, or see them sitting outside the dean's office, it's like a personal failure.【出自-2012年6月阅读原文】
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And the school's success or failure depends on their decisions and their behavior【出自-2012年12月听力原文】
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his mother, convinced that she had to do something dramatic to prevent him from leading a life of failure, lay down some rules.【2015年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section C】
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I feel like I'm a failure.【2019年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section B】
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Failure to address comprehensively the problem of greenhouse gas emissions, however, exposes all generations, present and future, to incalculable risks.【出自-2017年6月阅读原文】
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Economists' failure to detect the problems in time.【出自-2016年6月阅读原文】
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He predicts high failure rates for smaller, regional banks in 2010 as commercial real estate loans come due.【出自-2016年6月听力原文】
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After the failure of Lehman Brothers, many of the world’s largest banks feared the worst as the collapse of the housing bubble exposed investments in risky loans.【出自-2016年6月听力原文】
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And because a failure to accept these increased demands indicates a lack of commitment to one's work, the employee complies.【出自-2016年12月阅读原文】
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It results from society's failure to tackle the problem.【出自-2015年12月阅读原文】
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It allows for failures.【出自-2015年12月阅读原文】
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Informal learning environments tolerate failure better than schools.【出自-2015年12月阅读原文】
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In some ways, said Dr.Daniel Sulmasy, it represents a failure of wider society to take up the issue.【出自-2015年12月阅读原文】
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Despite its failure to shatter the glass ceiling,Sweden has one of the most powerful and innovative economies in the world.【出自-2014年6月阅读原文】
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In a paper published recently, Kapur applied the principle of productive failure to mathematical problem solving in three schools.【出自-2013年12月阅读原文】
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Failure more often than not breeds success【出自-2013年12月阅读原文】
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Government's failure to perform this role in the early 1930s transformed recession into depression.【出自-2013年6月阅读原文】
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How does Amy Wilkins of the Education Trust view minority students' failure to get a degree?【出自-2011年6月阅读原文】
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We can perhaps claim compensation from the steel suppliers for failure to deliver on time.【出自-2013年6月听力原文】
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What accounts for the failure of some websites to remove photos immediately?【出自-2010年12月听力原文】
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By reflecting on Americans' previous failures in predicting earthquakes.【出自-2010年6月听力原文】
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But insurance will be cold comfort following the failure on October 31st of VSS Enterprise, resulting in the death of one pilot and the severe injury to another.【2015年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C】
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It's a fact not lost on American educators, who amid rising math failure rates are debating how math can better meet the real-life needs of students.【2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C】
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A quick review of successes and failures at the end of year will help shape your year ahead.【2017年高考英语江苏卷 单项填空 原文】
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Experts say Paris is right: for a sudden heart failure, the single best chance for survival is having someone nearby step in and do CPR quickly.【2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文】
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Failure blocked his way to success.【2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项】
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Failure is probably the most exhausting experience a person ever has.【2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文】
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Failure is the mother of success.【2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 选项】
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From the very beginning of school, we make books and reading a constant source of possible failure and public humiliation.【2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文】
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He broke down as he thought of his failure to sell all his papers.【2015年高考英语湖北卷 完形填空 原文】
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It certainly was, Paris had suffered a sudden heart failure.【2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读】
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