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failing

英 ['feɪlɪŋ] 美['felɪŋ]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

近义词defect drawback unsuccessful weakness shortcoming

n. 失败；缺点，过失；弱点
prep. 如果没有…
adj. 失败的
v. 失败；不及格（fail的ing形式）
n. (Failing)人名；(英)费林

TEM8低频词

词态变化

复数: failings;

英英释意

1. a flaw or weak point;: "he was quick to point out his wife's failings"

2. failure to reach a minimum required performance;: "his failing the course led to his disqualification"

英文词源

failing (n.): late 14c., "failure;" 1580s, "defect, fault," verbal noun from fail (v.).

考试真题

It is harder to predict how Mr Obama's proposed reforms to the failing health-care system will turn out.

The way in which Mr Jobs revived the failing company he had co-founded and turned it into the world's biggest tech firm (bigger even than Bill Gates's Microsoft, the company that had outsmarted Apple so dramatically in the 1980s), sounds like something from a Hollywood movie.

He turned a failing company into a profitable business

He criticized teachers for failing to recognize that boys are actually more emotional than girls.

I'm self-employed and need the Internet for my work, but I'm failing to accomplish my work,to take care of my home, to give attention to my children," she wrote in a message sent to the group.

Another issue affecting real estate in the coming year will be America's failing infrastructure.

Indeed, even before the steep climb in grain prices in 2008, the number of failing states was expanding.

She didn't hand in her first two assignments for chemistry, which started her out in the class with a failing grade.

The nutritional and health crises that followed the policy of structural adjustment, he says, led to many children and teenagers failing to reach their full potential in terms of height.

In writing about their own experiences many applicants slip into clichés, thus failing to engage the reader.

Scholars will debate which interventions this time - the Federal Reserve's support of a failing credit system, guarantees of bank debt, Obama's ''stimulus" plan and bank "stress test" - counted most in preventing a recurrence.

Setting realistic goals can turn a failing business into success.

But researchers are improving systems to measure a teacher's performance throughout the year, and, with three years of data, it's usually possible to tell which teachers are failing.

Failing to find any other way out, they decided to make a walking journey, as they caught sight of an old.

However, greater parental involvement does not necessarily indicate that parents are failing to let go of their "adult" children.

Downloading and consuming culture requires great skills, but failing to move beyond downloading is to strip oneself of a defining constituent of humanity.

Failing at something can help you discover your truest friends, or help you find unexpected motivation to succeed.

Failing to recognize that, he notes, leads to "an overly simplified view of what the solutions might be".

Failing to recognize that, he notes, leads to an overly simplified view of what the solutions might be.

It's based on a somewhat fantasized, very white, very upper-middle-class ideology that says if you're failing to expose your child to 30,000 words you are neglecting them.

Parkrun is succeeding where London's Olympic "legacy" is failing.

实用场景例句

She is aware of her own failings.: 她了解自己的弱点。

The inquiry acknowledges failings in the judicial system.: 这次调查承认司法制度有缺陷。

Ask a friend to recommend a doctor or, failing that , ask for a list in your local library.: 请朋友推荐一位医生，如果办不到就向当地图书馆要一份名单。

Like many in Russia, she blamed the country's failings on futile attempts to catch up with the West...: 像俄罗斯很多人一样，她认为国家的错误就在于徒然地竭力追赶西方。

He had invented an imaginary son, in order to make up for his real son's failings.: 为了弥补现实中儿子的不足之处，他就想象出了一个儿子。

Find someone who will let you talk things through, or failing that, write down your thoughts.: 找个能让你把事情说清楚的人，如果不行的话，就把你所想的写下来。

The factory was closed for failing to comply with government safety regulations.: 工厂由于未能遵守政府的安全条例而被关闭了.

She was reprimanded for failing to do her duty.: 她因失职而遭到了训斥.

His business is failing; he's mortgaged all his assets to try to save it.: 他的企业在亏损, 他抵押了所有资产企图挽救它.

They tried to shore up the failing economy by means of tax increases.: 他们企图用增加税收的办法来挽救日益衰落的经济.

His health is failing rapidly.: 他的健康迅速衰退.

She was disqualified from competing for a year after failing a dope test.: 因未能通过药检,她被取消比赛资格一年.

Three members were ejected from the club for failing to pay the money that they owed.: 因不能偿还欠款,三名会员被该会开除了.

Failing Smith, try Tom.: 要是史密斯不在, 就找汤姆.

Two members were booted out for failing to pay the money they owed.: 两名会员由于没付欠款而被开除.

Failing good weather, the match will be held indoors.: 如果天气不好, 比赛将在室内举行.

My eyesight is failing.: 我眼力不济了.

The very thought of failing in the English examination frightens me.: 甚至想到英语考试(可能)不及格我就害怕.

Who wants to buy a computer from a failing company?: 谁愿意从一家要倒闭的公司买计算机呢？

They were failing lamentably to help their sons grow from boyhood to manhood.: 他们抱憾未能帮助儿子们顺利地长大成人。

Three admirals and a top Navy civilian will be cited for failing to act on reports of sexual assaults.: 3位海军上将和1位海军高级文员将被指名，原因是他们在接到性侵犯的举报后没有采取任何行动。

They claim the council has prejudiced their health by failing to deal with asbestos.: 他们声称，理事会没有处理好石棉的问题，从而损害了他们的健康。

The minister criticised the police for failing to come up with any leads.: 部长批评警方没能找到任何线索。

People accused the ministry of failing to take adequate preventive measures.: 人们谴责该政府部门未能采取足够的预防措施。

In a way, I suppose I'm frightened of failing.: 我想我有点惧怕失败。

He was declared bankrupt after failing to pay a £114m loan guarantee.: 由于无力偿还1.14亿英镑的贷款担保，他被宣布破产。

They were charged with failing to have professional indemnity cover.: 他们被指控未能提供职业保险保障。

Water industry chiefs were rapped yesterday for failing their customers.: 昨天，水利行业的头头们因为怠慢客户而受到批评。