喜樂美語

核心畫面

You reach out toward a goal and come up short — your effort stumbles and the result you wanted slips away. The Latin root fallere means 'to trip, to stumble', and that picture sits under almost everything: something tries to hold up or come through, but falls short, gives way, or never arrives.

可以想成：你伸手去搆一個目標，卻搆不到——一個動作絆了一下、跌了下去，想要的結果就溜掉了。fail 的拉丁字根 fa…更多收起可以想成：你伸手去搆一個目標，卻搆不到——一個動作絆了一下、跌了下去，想要的結果就溜掉了。fail 的拉丁字根 fallere 正是「絆倒、跌跤」的意思，這個畫面幾乎墊在所有用法底下：本來該撐住、該到位、該長出來的東西，結果撐不住、沒到位、沒長出來。

原始詞典資料22 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Failname

  • 1

    A surname.

failverb詞源 1/feɪl/

  • 1

    To be unsuccessful.

    • Throughout my life, I have always failed.
    • If they ſhoulde gyue battayle it was to be doubted, leaſt through treaſon amõgſt themſelues, the armie ſhould be betrayed into the enimies hands, the which would not fayle to execute all kinde of crueltie in the ſlaughter of the whole nation.
  • 2

    Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)

    • The truck failed to start.
  • 3

    To neglect.

    • The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors.
    • Those who have advocated the closure of the G.C. have so far failed to say by which alternative route this North-to-West traffic could be carried.
  • 4

    Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.

    • After running five minutes, the engine failed.
    • We also found that the only emergency egress from the tram was by smashing the front or rear windscreens, and that emergency lighting had failed when the tram overturned.
  • 5

    To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.

    • I've failed my parents many times growing up.
    • There shall not fail thee a man on the throne.
  • 6

    To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.

    • I failed English last year.
  • 7

    To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.

    • The professor failed me because I did not complete any of the course assignments.
  • 8

    obsoleteTo miss attaining; to lose.

    • though that seat of earthly bliss be failed
另外 7 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.

    • The crops failed last year.
    • as the waters fail from the sea
  • 10

    archaicTo 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 to be attributed to their size.
  • 11

    archaicTo fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.

    • When earnestly they seek / Such proof, conclude they then begin to fail.
  • 12

    archaicTo deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.

    • A sick man fails.
  • 13

    obsoleteTo perish; to die; used of a person.

    • had the king in his last sickness failed
  • 14

    obsoleteTo err in judgment; to be mistaken.

    • Which ofttimes may succeed, so as perhaps / Shall grieve him, if I fail not.
  • 15

    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.

    • "But you cannot tell where she went on leaving here?" Robert asked, despondingly. "No, sir; missus says she believes the lady failed, and that she left sudden like, and didn't want her address to be known in the neighbourhood."

failnoun詞源 1/feɪl/

  • 1

    A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).

  • 2

    A failing grade in an academic examination.

  • 3

    slangA failure (something incapable of success).

  • 4

    slangPoor quality; substandard workmanship.

    • The project was full of fail.

failadj詞源 1/feɪl/

  • 1

    slangUnsuccessful; inadequate; unacceptable in some way.

failnoun詞源 2/feɪl/

  • 1

    A piece of turf cut from grassland.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。