failing
美 [ˈfeɪlɪŋ] 
英 ['feɪlɪŋ]
- n.缺点；弱点
- prep.如果没有；如果不能
- adj.衰退中的
- v.“fail”的现在分词
- 网络失败；失败的；不及格
词形变化
复数：failings 同义词
英汉双解
1. | [usupl] 弱点；缺点a weakness or fault in sb/sth |
| She is aware of her own failings. 她了解自己的弱点。 |
| The inquiry acknowledges failings in the judicial system. 这次调查承认司法制度有缺陷。 |
1. | 如果不能；如果没有used to introduce a suggestion that could be considered if the one just mentioned is not possible |
| Ask a friend to recommend a doctor or, failing that , ask for a list in your local library. 请朋友推荐一位医生，如果办不到就向当地图书馆要一份名单。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
You are now ready to run the portable collector and collect problem data from the failing system.
现在就为运行便携收集器并从故障系统收集问题数据做好准备了。
Yesterday tested both the bottom and top of the current sideway trading range, failing to break out either direction and closed mid-range.
昨日市场分别测试了上方和下方的阻力，但是都没有突破产生，现在还在前期我们陈述的平行区域中整理。
Equity analysts have been blamed for failing to heed warning signs but "it's also a question of transparency" , said Mr Lok .
他表示，股票分析师因未注意到警示信号而受到指责，但“这也是透明度的问题”。
All in all, the politicians charged with safeguarding the fisheries seem to be failing.
总之，承担保护渔业责任的政治家们似乎是失败了。
Sadly, America already seems to be failing to keep that promise, paralysed by the politics of transition.
遗憾的是美国已经出现了无法恪守诺言的迹象，其成因是新旧总统政权交替时期的政治形势。
It was all quite sad: I was trying to fit in and failing, not just because I was a woman but because I was altogether in the wrong job.
一切都很悲哀：我努力融入进去，却失败了，不仅因为我是一个女人，也因为我入错了行。
The public education system is not only failing to keep pace with surging demand, but is often of poor quality.
公共教育系统非但不足以跟上发展的步调，品质也很低落。
A short-sighted person tends to be conservative, thereby failing to see the connections between things.
目光短浅的人往往固步自封，从而看不到事物之间的联系。
And I should have been failing in my duty as your godmother if I did not counsel against it.
作为你的教母我要是不加以阻挠那就太失职了
I spent years trying to be a politician failing at every attempt and nearly gave up.
多年来我为了立足政坛一直不断努力，但却屡遭失败，以致我几乎想要放弃。
In another instance, an investor backed an entrepreneur in a business that thereafter appeared to be failing.
在另一个例子里，某投资者资助了一个日渐衰落的公司。
If they are already failing by the age of four and a half or five, it's going to be quite difficult to get them back into the system again.
如果他们在四五岁时就已经准备好了失败，那么以后让他们回归这个教学系统就非常难了。
He was considered a bust in Atlanta, failing to measure up to expectations after the team signed him to a six-year contract.
韦伯斯特曾经是亚特兰大队的希望，然而在与该队签订了六年合同之后，他并没有达到人们的期望。
Sunrise East China Sea off the sun, unhappy day, joyful day; failing into a dead end, people are comfortable, comfortable heart.
日出东海落西山，愁也一天，喜也一天；遇事不钻牛角尖，人也舒坦，心也舒坦。
Only a society close to our level of development would be able to pick up an intentional broadcast while failing to notice TV and radar.
只有接近我们发展水平的外星人社会，在我们未能通知电视和雷达的条件下，才可能检测出有意的广播。
I'm happy to report that after years of studying it, I've become fairly good at it (though happily failing all the time).
我很高兴地宣布，经过数年的研究之后我已在这方面变得相当在行了（尽管一直在失败着）。
He constantly made up all kinds of excuses for failing to finish projects, as if they would add up to the truth.
他不停的编着各种借口来解释为什么没能完成任务，好像一千个谎言加起来就可以等于实情
But even with all that bailing, Spanish banks have still come perilously close to failing.
但即使接受了这么多的救援资金，西班牙的银行依然处境危险，濒临倒闭。
But it was too terrible for that When I tried to understand it, I had the feeling I was failing to condemn it as it must be condemned.
但这种心情太可怖了。当我试图去了解其原委时，我就有种感觉，我没法像别人那样去谴责。
His heart would break under her sharp words, and when he was punished for failing to turn in his homework, he felt just miserable!
每次她说出尖刻的话时，他都感到自己的心已经碎了。每次完不成作业被罚的时候，他都感到非常痛苦。
To make things worse, his eyesight, which had been failing for a long time, became very bad.
更糟糕的是他的视力早已衰退，现在变得更差了。
"My naughty daughter's failing in her duties, " she said.
“我这个淘气的女儿没有尽到她应尽的责任，”她说。
"Have you so proved it to be a failing of mine, Tom? " said Louisa, showing no other sense of his discontent and ill-nature.
“你是不是拿准了这是我的一个缺点呢，汤姆？”露易莎除掉了这句话外，仿佛对他那愤懑的样子和坏脾气并没有别的什么感觉似的。
Two members were flung out of the club for failing to pay the money they owed.
俱乐部有两个会员由于未能交纳欠款而被开除。
He was coaxed out of retirement to help the failing company.
他退休之后又被力劝出山帮助濒临破产的公司。
Whether this was Judith, relapsed into her early failing, or some other victim of the soldier's, Hawkeye never knew.
至于这个女人是否就是重蹈覆辙的尤蒂丝，还是这位军官手里的另一个牺牲品，神鹰眼始终不知道。
The very possibility of his failing had ceased to enter into my head.
在我的脑海里从未产生过他也有可能失败的想法。
The boy was pitched out of the school for failing to pass the examination again.
那男孩因考试又不及格被开除了学籍。
Failing health dwindles ambition.
健康每况愈下使人志气衰退。
The boy's failing grades dismayed his parents.
这名男孩不能升级令父母不安。
For failing to live up to its commitments on corruption, protectionism and fuel subsidies, it gave the lowest grade to India.
由于未兑现在腐败，保护主义及燃料津贴方面的承诺，印度成为得分最低的国家。
But less than a year earlier he had chastised Jeff Immelt, his successor, for failing to respect the discipline this dumb idea demands.
但就在不到一年前，他曾严厉斥责他的继任杰夫•伊梅尔特（JeffImmelt），原因是后者未能遵守这种愚蠢想法所要求的行为准则。
But having had a year of failing to adapt to our new reality, our relationship was being strained to its limits.
但是又过了一年的失败生活，我们的关系已经紧张到了极限，我们接受了现实。
After serving for a few years in a civil position, he retired briefly to his house in Westminster because his eyesight was failing.
之后的几年中，一个民间的立场，他退役后他的房子简单地在威斯敏斯特，因为他的视力是失败的。
Tests that are failing are an indication that your progress may not be as good as you think it is.
失败的测试可能是您的进度没有想象中那样完美的迹象。
It felt like an old and trusted friend turning his back on you and failing you miserably when you needed him most.
那感觉就像你最需要你那忠实的老朋友，他却对你不顾而去时一样失落。
Charlie Babbitt is frantically trying to straighten out his failing Los Angles business which involves expensive import cars.
查理巴氏合金是疯狂地试图理清他未能洛杉矶经营涉及昂贵的进口车。
Also, if you see a test run is failing all the tests and there might be an issue that you have to fix, you can stop the test run.
另外，如果您看到某个测试运行中所有测试都未通过，可能存在必须修复的问题，则可以停止该测试运行。
There are two cheap hotels, but failing either of these, you may as well go back to where you were before.
有两家便宜的旅馆，若都不行的话，不妨还是回你从前住的地方去吧。
The absence of such a philosophy has been a great failing.
缺乏此类哲学一直是一个重大失败。
The culprits must be tracked down, arrested, prosecuted and adequately punished for the death of the child and for failing to stop.
肇事者必须被找到，逮捕，并被足够地惩罚，为孩子的死亡也为没有及时停下。
He was fearing. . . He often woke up from the nightmare, dreaming of his failing the test and dreaming of colleagues mocking at him.
他常常从噩梦中惊醒，梦到自己没有考上，梦到同事们在嘲笑他。
Scott Cook, the founder of Intuit, tells me he's trying to create a culture of experimentation in which failing is perfectly fine.
因图特（Intuit）公司的创始人斯科特·库克（ScottCook）告诉我，他试图建立一种实验文化，失败了也没关系。
Even his never-failing energy seemed to have run out of him.
并且他那永不会感到疲倦的精力也像逃走了。
He had been dismissed by the bank for failing to meet his targets before the annual bonus awards were made.
在发年终奖前，他由于没达到目标，被银行解雇。
He said that he would definitely pass the exam, but he had no eat his words after failing the exam again.
他说他肯定会通过考试，但是考试又不及格后只好收回他的话。
They began to believe that their way of doing business was failing, and that their incomes would therefore shortly begin to fall as well.
他们开始相信自己的商业经营方式是失败的，并相信不久他们的收入也会因此而下降。
Many scholars believe Lewis took his own life as a result of depression, alcohol abuse, or failing to marry or to publish.
很多学者相信刘易斯是自杀，原因是长期的沮丧、滥用酒精、婚姻和公共形象的失败等等。
That paper with the failing grade was suddenly not nearly as important as it had been just a few minutes earlier.
突然间，那份不及格的试卷不像几分钟前那样重要了。
Cuba and Venezuela have accused the United States of protecting Mr Posada by failing either to try him for terrorism or to extradite him.
古巴和委内瑞拉指责美国包庇Posada先生，既不因从事恐怖主义活动对他审判，也不引渡其他回国。
