failing

1 Bobby Gene was trying and failing to keep it together himself.

2 Maybe it’s similar to the way, while watching our favorite soap opera, the Doctorita sobbed over the cruelty of Isaura’s enslavement while failing to see that she herself had enslaved me.

3 Failing the examinations for admission to college he had to get in by the back door.

由于大学入学考试不及格,他不得不走后门.

4 Failing election, she will return to her law practice.

如果竞选失败, 她将重操旧业去当律师.

5 I mean, it wasn’t his fault his boss was gay and cowardly and failing to report for duty.

6 Failing Smith, try Tom.

要是史密斯不在, 就找汤姆.

7 The second, slightly more optimistic conclusion is that, in some way, our schools are failing poor children: we simply aren’t doing a good enough job of teaching them the skills they need.

8 In the summer of 1936 he was twenty-six and in the twelfth year of a failing career as a jockey and part-time prizefighter.

9 Failing instructions I did what I thought best.

如果没有指示,我就按照自己认为最好的方法去做。

10 If you're not failing, you're not trying. So don't take failure too hard or too personally.

如果你没有失败过, 就说明你没有努力尝试过, 所以别太计较失败,别太往心里去.

11 Failing the exam, I am in a mood today.

因为考试不及格，所以我今天心情很不好。

12 It was she who had arranged the match, and though failing in health she thought it her duty to come to me.

13 She was partly to blame for failing to look as she crossed the road.

她横穿马路时没有看车，应承担部分责任。

14 It was a shot of Sherie Williams at the Aspen cabin, talking about how she’d been failing a bunch of classes.

15 Doing otherwise would have been like failing to resign after losing a major piece in a chess tournament—a social irritant, a waste of time and resources.

16 It was only a centimeter in diameter, but still, it had to be better than a tangle of copper dangling from a failing duct.

17 Failing that, the USS John McCain could closely follow the ship until it reaches a port.

如果该船仍不听从,约翰.麦凯恩号有权紧随它直到其到达港口.

18 When my first failing grade, I about quitting.

第一次成绩不及格时, 我谈到退学.

19 Lack of school attendance comes to mind as the biggest treat, although I was worried about having more makeup work to do and about failing my finals.

20 If governments step in, it can prevent auctions from failing and triggering high interest rates.

如果政府插手, 可防止拍卖失败引发利率升高.

1 如果没有

but barring

2 衰老

age

3 衰退

rusty degenerate sagging failure decline weakness recession decay downturn slowdown degeneration ebb atrophy weakening fail flag fade weaken lapse sag falter faltering skid shake-out go retrogress

4 弱点

vice weakness defect vulnerability infirmity frailty underbelly foible between wind and water a chink in armor blind side inadequacy limitation a chink in armour fault drawback shortcoming imperfection weak spot chink in armour weak flaw out blot chink pull-back soft spot claw-back touch a tender spot

5 衰退的

rusty degenerate sagging faltering

6 瑕疵

spot defect flaw stigma imperfection blemish speck

7 衰弱的

run-down infirm flagging enfeebled enervated

8 缺点

want spot hole bug liability crack fault weakness defect deficiency flaw objection drawback shortcoming imperfection blemish blot insufficiency inadequacy infirmity demerit a chink in armor minus smirch disamenity inconvenience trouble frailty weak downside out strike vice shortage gall speck defection tache down-side take-off nite spot claw-back default debit stigma kink dereliction nadgers

9 失败的

failed losing abortive lost unsuccessful

10 不及格

fail failure plow pluck flunk F flag flush croak dip pip

11 衰弱

run-down infirm flagging enfeebled enervated infirmity frailty debility flag fade weaken debilitate waste away

12 缺陷

hole crack limitation vice fault defect deficiency flaw objection imperfection deformity kink tarnish insufficiency lacuna impediment inadequacy an Achilles' heel

13 短处

shortcoming defect demerit fault debit frailty foible dereliction faible

14 过失

sin harm slip blame fault offense defect negligence lapse aberration trespass inaccuracy delinquency misstep defection demerit

15 破产

broken bust rhino bankrupt insolvent bung belly-up failure crash ruin suspension smash bankruptcy cracker wrecking ruination bust-up blowup smashup bust-out break fail liquidate fold wreck come to smash play smash go off at half cock down the spout melted out on the hog go to the cleaners go bust go bung out of business in the tub break the bank

16 失败

lost failed unsuccessful losing busted abortive unsuccessfully failingly loss Miss failure defeat reverse suck frustration abortion turkey smash bust frost setback flop miscarriage boob fluff shipwreck misfire boggle muff fizzle undoing flunk flub cock-up discomfiture mess-up cockup smashup unsuccess go lose fail crash founder fold abort backfire goof trip upset spike frustrate wreck vitiate go down the tubes bring to grief be defeated in lose the day singe wings run awry come to nothing go to the wall come a mucker have had chips no soap put the skids on put the skids under fall down on go belly up come unstuck drop through go awry badly disaster collapse breakdown reversal beating demise bashing choke miscarry suck-in break miss slip stumble crab rot overthrow bummer dud mull balk worse checkmate bloomer flummox brodie flivver stray slump destroy dash cave-in slipup honk out frustrated bankrupt stillborn ballup hip header fade bankruptcy flap strikeout meltdown gaffe butch barney fungo cruller schmear lay-down lash-up balls-up stumer fliv default cook funk damn stiff blob counteract pip confound throw a wrench into come to the ground die on feet one in the eye clutch the gummy lay a bomb go bust come apart at the seams go bung fall on face miss fire blow it fall to the ground draw blank have the worst drag anchor