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failing

/fey-ling/US // ˈfeɪ lɪŋ //UK // (ˈfeɪlɪŋ) //

失败,失败的,失效,失误

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act or instance of failing; failure: His failing is due to general incompetence.
    • : a defect or fault; shortcoming; weakness: His lack of knowledge is a grave failing.
prep.介词 preposition
  1. 1
    • : in the absence or default of: Failing payment, we shall sue.

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Examples

  • Sensing trouble, when Johnson assumed the role, many onlookers used the phrase “glass cliff” to indicate the belief that Johnson was taking on leadership of a failing company and thus doomed to fail herself.

  • The state of global bodies that, despite their many failings, have been instrumental in building and enforcing international laws is no better.

  • In his ruling, Judge Tan Ikram said Uber, which claims to have over 45,000 drivers in the city, was now “fit and proper” to hold a London private-hire vehicle operator’s license “despite their historical failings.”

  • The company’s failings reflect a broader struggle within the industry to commercialize a technology with so much promise.

  • The National Security Council in this early period also struggled, without someone with a clinical epidemiology or global health security background empowered to run the response or challenge health officials — a huge failing, this official added.

  • He beat his illness twice, wrote about his battles with the disease, and continued broadcasting even as his health was failing.

  • Annie Lee Cooper, well played by Winfrey, is shown trying but failing to register to vote.

  • But failing that, he advised pro-immigration reform Republican candidates such as former Gov. Jeb Bush to just skip the state.

  • They recorded 10,549 graves on or near the railway in 144 cemeteries, failing to locate only 52 graves.

  • So by failing, I go audition for Any Given Sunday [and] things turn out right.

  • HE ordered a lunch which he thought the girl would like, with wine to revive the faculties that he knew must be failing.

  • The foster-father, who was an American resident in Hong-Kong, found his eyesight gradually failing him.

  • Before Ulm he nearly ruined Napoleon's combination by failing to get in contact with the enemy.

  • Norman went slowly down, with failing knees, hardly able to conquer the shudder that came over him, as he passed those rooms.

  • The country abounded in excellent native fruits, and the mandioc furnished never-failing stores of bread.