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.
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原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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.
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