及物动词

不及物动词

1. 失败;未能够;未做成
If you fail to do something that you were trying to do, you are unable to do it or do not succeed in doing it.

2. (活动、尝试、计划等)失败，不成功
If an activity, attempt, or plan fails, it is not successful.

3. 没有做，未做(应做的事)
If someone or something fails to do a particular thing that they should have done, they do not do it.

4. 出故障;失灵
If something fails, it stops working properly, or does not do what it is supposed to do.

5. (企业)倒闭，破产;(机构)解体;(体系)崩溃
If a business, organization, or system fails, it becomes unable to continue in operation or in existence.

6. (健康状况、体质等)衰弱，虚弱，衰退
If something such as your health or a physical quality is failing, it is becoming gradually weaker or less effective.

7. 辜负;使失望
If someone fails you, they do not do what you had expected or trusted them to do.

8. 不履行，未尽(职责)
If someone fails in their duty or fails in their responsibilities, they do not do everything that they have a duty or a responsibility to do.

9. (品质或能力)有负于;(使)不如愿;不够
If a quality or ability that you have fails you, or if it fails, it is not good enough in a particular situation to enable you to do what you want to do.

10. 不及格
If someone fails a test, examination, or course, they perform badly in it and do not reach the standard that is required.

11. 评定…不及格;使不及格
If someone fails you in a test, examination, or course, they judge that you have not reached a high enough standard in it.

12. 如果其他一切都不奏效的话;假如其他都行不通
You say if all else fails to suggest what could be done in a certain situation if all the other things you have tried are unsuccessful.

13. (用以表示不赞成)不明白，看不出
You can use I fail to see or I fail to understand in order to introduce a statement which indicates that you do not agree with what someone has said or done.

14. 总是;一直
You use without fail to emphasize that something always happens.

15. (用以强调命令或承诺)一定，必须
You use without fail to emphasize an order or a promise.

1. get worse

e.g. Her health is declining

2. stop operating or functioning

e.g. The engine finally went
The car died on the road
The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town
The coffee maker broke
The engine failed on the way to town
her eyesight went after the accident

Synonym: go badgive waydiegive outconk outgobreakbreak down

3. prove insufficient

e.g. The water supply for the town failed after a long drought

Synonym: run outgive out

4. disappoint, prove undependable to
abandon, forsake

e.g. His sense of smell failed him this time
His strength finally failed him
His children failed him in the crisis

Synonym: betray

5. become bankrupt or insolvent
fail financially and close

e.g. The toy company went bankrupt after the competition hired cheap Mexican labor
A number of banks failed that year

6. fall short in what is expected

e.g. She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law
We must not fail his obligation to the victims of the Holocaust

7. fail to get a passing grade

e.g. She studied hard but failed nevertheless
Did I fail the test?

Synonym: flunkbombflush it

8. judge unacceptable

e.g. The teacher failed six students

9. be unsuccessful

e.g. Where do today's public schools fail?
The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably

Synonym: go wrongmiscarry

10. fail to do something
leave something undone

e.g. She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib
The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account

Synonym: neglect

11. be unable

e.g. I fail to understand your motives