【failure音标】 英[ˈfeɪljə(r)] 美[ˈfeɪljər]
【单词释义】 failure是什么意思：
n.失败，不及格；失败的人(或事物)；缺乏，不足；破产，倒闭；未做，未履行
[单词分级] 高考英语词汇
[单词复数] failures
[反义词] success n.成功
【关联词/派生词】
fail v. 失败；未做到；不及格 n.(考试)不及格
failing n. 弱点，缺点；失败 adj. 衰退的，衰弱的；失败的 v. 失败；未能做到，未能做；辜负，使失望（fail 的现在分词）
【failure形近词/近似词】
endure v.忍耐；忍受；持续，持久
pure adj.纯的；纯粹的；纯真的；干净的
tenure n.[U] 任期，任职；居住权，保有权，占有期
allure n. 诱惑力；魅力；吸引力 v.吸引；引诱；吸引
manure n.肥料；粪肥 vt.给……施肥
lure n.吸引力，魅力；诱惑力；鱼饵，诱饵
sure adj.确信的；有把握的；无疑的；一定的 adv.当然；确实地
cure vt.治愈；解决
azure adj. 蔚蓝色的；天蓝色的 n. [U]天青色；天蓝色
【近义词解析】
◇ 失败
defeat (n. 失败)：多指在与某一方的对抗中所遭遇的失败，如在战争、比赛、竞选等中的失利，也可泛指未能做成某事。
failure （n. 失败；失败的人，失败的事)：指做某事时未能达成目标，也可指不成功的人或事。
【单词例句】
◇ When people seized this crazy man with caution and sobered him by tapping his face, he complained about the bad weather instead of associating his failure with his unscientific design.
当人们小心地抓住这个失去理智的人，轻轻拍打他的脸使他清醒过来时，他还在抱怨糟糕的坏天气，却没有将他的失败与他不科学的设计联系起来。
---- Strange Patent Applications
◇ Being drunk, sliding on a banana skin or whispering his own failures to nobody, he made us feel more content with our life without any verbal explanation.
喝醉酒啦，踩到香蕉皮滑倒啦，或者自言自语（低语）自己的糗事啦，他无需任何语言解释的表演总是使我们对自己的生活感到更加满意。
---- Chaplin - A Great Master of Humour
◇ Parts of Western Europe have reached a "standstill," particularly due to a failure to get women to stop smoking, African men are lagging, and tobacco use in the Middle East is actually set to increase, the WHO said.
部分西欧地区进入“停滞期”，部分原因是没能让女性戒烟。非洲男性也拖了后腿，中东地区的烟草使用其实在增加。
---- Tobacco use still a major cause of death
◇ However, experts agree that they contain chemical compounds that are potentially very toxic to dogs. At best, your dog could suffer from diarrhoea and vomiting and, at worst, dried-fruit poisoning could lead to kidney failure.
但专家认为，这些果脯包含可能对狗狗有剧毒的化学物质。果脯中毒最轻可引起腹泻和呕吐，而最重可导致肾衰竭。
---- Food that dogs cannot eat
◇ Being grateful is an important philosophy of life and a great wisdom. It is impossible for anyone to be lucky and successful all the time so long as he lives in the world. We should learn how to face failure or misfortune bravely and generously and to try to deal with it.
感恩生活是一项重要的处世哲学，是生活的大智慧。人生在世，不可能事事顺通。对于各种失败和不幸，我们要豁达大度，勇敢地面对，并想办法解决。
---- Being Grateful
◇ The failure of the lion is complacency, tiger's success lies in hard work, after the failure constantly struggle.
狮子的失败在于骄傲自满，老虎的成功在于失败后的刻苦努力，不断奋斗。
---- The Tiger And Lion