Failure

(noun.) an unexpected omission; 'he resented my failure to return his call'; 'the mechanic's failure to check the brakes'.

(noun.) an act that fails; 'his failure to pass the test'.

(noun.) an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose; 'the surprise party was a complete failure'.

(noun.) a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently.

(noun.) loss of ability to function normally; 'kidney failure'.

(noun.) lack of success; 'he felt that his entire life had been a failure'; 'that year there was a crop failure'.

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• Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• It might be for a day or for two days, but I must be lost sight of on landing, or there would be recognition, anticipation, and failure. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Their failure to agree c aused the observer to reject one and mark the other as doubtful. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• It's the failure to live that makes one ill, and humiliates one. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Could I look at my failure from no truer point of view than this? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The curse is laid upon them of being and doing what it approves, and when they attempt first principles the failure is ludicrous. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• This proving a failure, he, in 1830, turned his attention to the improvement of rubber goods. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Then our comrade, always a shrewd businessman, offered to take the whole cargo at thirty days, but that little financial scheme was a failure. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The Florentine militia he created was a complete failure. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• While failure is sometimes the outcome of the water-finder’s attempts, success as often and, indeed, according to the testimony of Professor Barrett, more often crowns his efforts. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• No intelligent man can tell of this process or read of this process of failure without very mingled feelings. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Of course the assault was a failure, and of course the loss on our side was great for the number of men engaged. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The Wilmington expedition has proven a gross and culpable failure. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It has been tried many times by other daughters, Minnie; it has never succeeded; nothing has ever come of it but failure. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The word demagogue has been frightfully maltreated in late years, but surely here is its real meaning--to flatter the people by telling them that their failures are somebody else's fault. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Both efforts were failures and were not renewed. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Has the difficulty grown easier because of so many failures? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Book after book was added to the heap of failures, Miss Murdstone being firmly watchful of us all the time. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Somebody must be responsible for their failures. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Fantastic failures of journeys occupied me until the day dawned and the birds were singing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• All these failures would have been very discouraging if I had expected much from the efforts; but I had not. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Many were the complaints below, and great the chagrin of the head cook at her failures. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Hence, Antietam, Gettysburg, and all the other battles that had been fought, were by them set down as failures on our part, and victories for them. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I had a hard time, Jo, and shed a good many bitter tears over my failures, for in spite of my efforts I never seemed to get on. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• His many failures caused his friends to forsake him and he was put in prison for not paying his debts. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• These contests served to bring out the failures, and the still-existing wants in this line of machinery. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I had reason to believe that in accomplishing these failures we incurred a far greater expense than if we had achieved a series of triumphs. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The attempts of theorists to explain man's successes as rational acts and his failures as lapses of reason have always ended in a dismal and misty unreality. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Many startling successes and a few unavoidable failures were the outcome of this long period of continuous work. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.

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