失敗的人或東西
前一組講的是「失敗這件事」，這一組把同一個落空釘到一個具體的人或物身上——他／它本身就是那支沒中靶的箭。
a failure (person/thing that doesn't succeed) · noun · B2
A person or thing that does not succeed or work well.
失敗者／失敗的東西
核心畫面
You can picture failure as the moment a hoped-for outcome simply does not arrive: you reached for something — to win, to make it work, to get it done — and it did not come off. The arrow was aimed at a target and fell short. Everything else the word means is some version of that same gap between what was meant to happen and what actually did.
可以把 failure 想成「本來要成的事，最後沒成」的那一刻：你伸手去拿某個東西——想贏、想讓它運作、想把它做完—…更多收起
可以把 failure 想成「本來要成的事，最後沒成」的那一刻：你伸手去拿某個東西——想贏、想讓它運作、想把它做完——結果落空了，像箭瞄了靶卻沒中。這個字其他所有意思，都可以想成同一個「期望」與「實際」之間的缺口，只是缺口落在不同地方而已。From the picture
停止運作（垮掉·壞掉·歉收）
把「沒達成期望」搬到「本來會持續運轉的東西」上：公司、機器、身體、農作物都被期待好好運作，一旦中途停擺、達不到該有的表現，就是它們各自的 failure。
failure (business closing) · noun · B2
When a business has to close because it does not have enough money.
倒閉
Also in this word
failure (not succeeding) · noun · B2
When you do not succeed in doing or getting something you wanted.
失敗
failure (not doing what's expected) · noun · B2
When someone does not do something that they should do or that people expect.
未能做到（某事）
原始詞典資料6 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。
failurenoun/ˈfeɪ.ljə/
- 1
State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
- For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
- Sarkozy's total will be seen as a personal failure. It is the first time an outgoing president has failed to win a first-round vote in the past 50 years and makes it harder for Sarkozy to regain momentum.
- 2
medicinepathologysciencesState or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
- heart failure
- congestive heart failure
- 3
Omission to do something, whether or not it was attempted, especially something that ought to have been done.
- 4
An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure, has failed at something or incapable of success.
- 5
Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function; breakdown.
- Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.
- But as with individual train failures you have to tackle every one as it arises and assume it will happen again, which it will, if you don't do something about it.
- 6
Bankruptcy.
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。