fail
fail的音标和读音：
DJ音标发音： [feil]
KK音标发音： [fel]
fail的词性：
v.（动词）
fail的词性：
v.intr.（不及物动词）
1. To prove deficient or lacking; perform ineffectively or inadequately.
表现欠佳：证明不足或不够；活动受损或不充足
2. To be unsuccessful:
失败：不成功：
a valiant attempt that failed.
虽败犹荣
3. To receive an academic grade below the acceptable minimum.
不及格：达到的学术等级低于最低限度
4. To prove insufficient in quantity or duration; give out:
用尽：数量或持续时间证明为不足；用完：
The water supply failed during the drought.
在干旱期供水不足
5. To fall short, as in what is expected of one:
未达成：不能达到别人所期望的：
failed in her obligations to the family.
她对家庭没有尽到责任
6. To decline, as in strength or effectiveness:
减弱：力量减弱或功能衰退：
The patient's heart failed.
病人的心跳减弱
7. To cease functioning properly:
彻底中止运转：
The engine failed.
引擎彻底停止了运转
8. To become bankrupt or insolvent:
破产：
Our family business failed in 1929.
1929年我们家族破产了
fail的词性：
v.tr.（及物动词）
9. To disappoint or prove undependable to:
使失望或不可信赖：
Our sentries failed us.
我们的哨兵令我们失望
10. To abandon; forsake:
抛弃；放弃：
His strength failed him.
他丧失了力气
11. To omit to perform (an expected duty, for example):
遗漏未做：忽略而未能完成（例如，所期望的任务）：
“We must . . . hold . . . those horrors up to the light of justice. Otherwise we would fail our inescapable obligation to the victims of Nazism: to remember”(Anthony Lewis)
“记住：我们必须将那些惨事交付法庭审判。否则，对遭受法西斯主义迫害的人，我们将无法尽到应尽的责任”(安东尼·刘易斯)
12. To leave (something) undone; neglect:
疏忽：留下（某事）没做完；疏忽：
failed to wash the dishes.
忘了洗盘子
13. To receive an academic grade below the acceptable minimum in (a course, for example):
不及格：达到的学术等级低于能接受的最低限度（如某门课程）：
failed algebra twice.
代数两次不及格
14. To give such a grade of failure to (a student):
给（学生）不及格：
failed me in algebra.
给我代数不及格
fail的词性：
n.（名词）
15. Failure to deliver securities to a purchaser within a specified time.
保证失信：未能在特定时间内将保证金交给买主
16. Failure to receive the proceeds of a transaction, as in the sale of stock or securities, by a specified date.
交割失信：在股票或抵押品售出后，未能在规定日期内办理交接手续
17. With no chance of failure:
一定，必定：没有失败的可能：
Be here at noon without fail.
一定在正午时到这里
fail的词源：
18. Middle English failen
中古英语 failen
19. from Old French faillir
源自 古法语 faillir
20. from Vulgar Latin *fallore
源自 俗拉丁语 *fallore
21. variant of Latin fallere [to deceive]
拉丁语 fallere的变体 [欺骗]