fault
美 [fɔlt] 
英 [fɔːlt]
- n.故障；过错；过失；缺陷
- v.发现错误；找出缺点
- 网络断层；毛病；失误
词形变化
复数：faults 现在分词：faulting 过去式：faulted 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
责任responsibility
1. | [u] 责任；过错；过失the responsibility for sth wrong that has happened or been done |
| Why should I say sorry when it's not my fault ? 不是我的错为什么要我道歉？ |
| It's nobody's fault. 谁都没有错。 |
| It was his fault that we were late. 我们迟到责任在他。 |
| It's your own fault for being careless. 你粗心大意是你自己的过失。 |
| Many people live in poverty through no fault of their own . 很多人生活贫困并非他们自己有什么过错。 |
| I think the owners are at fault(= responsible) for not warning us. 我认为业主没有提醒我们是有责任的。 |
人品in sb's character
2. | [c] 弱点；缺点a bad or weak aspect of sb's character |
| He's proud of his children and blind to their faults. 他为孩子们感到自豪，对他们的缺点视而不见。 |
| I love her for all her faults(= in spite of them) . 尽管她有这么多缺点，我还是爱她。 |
错事sth wrong
3. | [c] 缺陷；毛病；故障something that is wrong or not perfect; something that is wrong with a machine or system that stops it from working correctly |
| The book's virtues far outweigh its faults. 这本书优点远远大于缺点。 |
| The system, for all its faults , is the best available at the moment. 这个系统虽然缺点不少，却是现有最好的一个。 |
| a major fault in the design 设计中的一个重大失误 |
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网球in tennis
4. | [c] 发球失误a mistake made when serving |
| He has served a number of double faults in this set. 他在这盘发球出现了一些双误。 |
地质geology
5. | [c] （地壳岩层的）断层a place where there is a break that is longer than usual in the layers of rock in the earth's crust |
| the San Andreas fault 圣安德烈亚斯断层 |
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1. | ~ sb/sth 发现错误；找出缺点to find a mistake or a weakness in sb/sth |
| Her colleagues could not fault her dedication to the job. 她的同事认为她的敬业精神是无可挑剔的。 |
| He had always been polite─she couldn't fault him on that. 他总是彬彬有礼，在这方面她对他无可指摘。 |
习惯用语
to a fault
（良好品质）过分，过度used to say that sb has a lot, or even too much, of a particular good quality
| She is generous to a fault. 她过分慷慨。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
He thought the task of any intellectual was to make ideas as interesting as possible, and in this he succeeded to a fault.
他认为，任何一名知识分子的任务都是将思想用尽可能生动有趣的方式表述出来；事实上在这一点上他做的可以说有过之而无不及。
Somehow, people seem to think it's my fault for letting him in.
不知怎的，人们似乎认为让他进来是我的过错。
The former chairman of one of Germany's largest companies says spying "is all the fault of co-determination" .
一家德国大型企业的前任董事长表示，间谍活动“应完全归咎于共同决议制”。
Even if the whole world laugh at me, love Who can say the wrong person, even if the world's fault, me, and I as long as you follow me!
就算全世界都笑我，爱个人谁敢说错，就算全世界都怪我，我只要你跟我走！
Some Chien-wen of the mind and the history books, the time set out in a year or more some of relative fault.
有些简文所记与史书所载的时间相错一年或更多些。
It's my fault! said Clare. But talking did not help. The Tess he had first loved had separated her body from her soul.
“这是我的错呀！”克莱尔说。对是这已经无济于事了。他最初爱过的苔丝已把她的身躯从她的灵魂中分离开了，
After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault.
在她跟父母就自己的未来安排产生争执之后，她妈妈重病不起，让海伦娜觉得这一切都是自己的错。
I did not want to confuse you with the long sentences. You do not have to feel wrong. It was my fault.
我不想用长句子使你困惑。你不用非得感觉不对。这是我的错。
Don't childish. It is all west's fault of without sticking tightly the rule and therefore opening up the Pandora box.
别傻了，如果西方没有严格的遵循规则犯错的话，相当于打开的潘多拉铁盒。
Recognize that it is not their fault that you hurt them. Do not take your pain out on them.
认识伤害他们不是他们的错误。不要把自己的痛苦发泄道他们的身上。
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer said on Tuesday that if the government were to run out of funds it would be the GOP's fault.
众议院少数党人鞭斯坦利•霍耶周二说如果政府花光了所有的经费，那就是共和党的错误。
Any sort of soft hair in the outer coat , wherever found on the body, especially on the top of the head, is a fault.
如果有些柔软的毛发，不论在身体上，尤其在头顶，属于缺陷。
When I came to, he always said it was my fault. He said if I told anyone or tried to contact my parents, he would kill them.
当我醒过来时，他总是说是我的错，他说如果我告诉任何人或者想要联系我的父母，他就会杀了他们。
I cannot lick the fault out of him.
我怎麽打他也纠正不了他的毛病。
And, you know, you can't fault him for accuracy, but, actually, Frankie, at that time, was a heroin addict, and he was in jail.
而且，你知道，他这句话你挑不出一点毛病，但是Frankie那时，是个瘾君子，而且他被关在监狱。
Until now I thought that this sort of accident was the owner's fault but now I know differently.
过去我一直认为这类事故是车主的过错，但现在我有了不同看法。
It is known to all that the shortage of carrier wave mode: great disturbance in channel make it difficult to transmit fault data.
众所周知，采用电力载波通信方式有着明显的缺点：通道干扰大，数据传输难以保障。
If Prebisch's reputation was one of the victims of that debt crisis, it was partly his fault.
如果这场债务危机让普雷维什声誉扫地，也多半错在他自己。
strike-slip fault - a fault on which the two blocks slide past one another. The San Andreas Fault is an example of a right lateral fault.
走滑断层-两个岩体顺断层面走向相对滑动的断层。圣安德烈斯断层是一个右旋断层的例子。
At present, I think it is cruel for you to be grown up! It is not your fault. To my surprise, you could understand a great many truths.
目前来说，要求你成熟一点对你来说是残忍的，这不是你的错！然而令我惊奇的是，你还是能明白一些事实的。
She did not wish to convey that they were all at fault.
她不愿表现出他们人人都有错。
It was no fault of yours, nor of his; it was a mistake impossible to be prevented.
这不是你的错误，也不是他的错误，这是个无法防止的谬误。
I told him that it was his own fault.
我告诉他说，那只能怨他自己。
Automatically he considered it Hearn's fault that the transfer had been made and resented him instinctively for it.
他不假思索地认为候恩调来是候恩的过错，因而也就自然而然地对候恩恨入骨髓。
It was not her fault, poor lady, but proud men are sometimes like that, and there was nothing she could do.
这怎么能怪她呢，可怜的夫人，但是高傲的人有时就是这个样子，她有什么法子呢。
The truth is, I can find no fault with you.
事实是，我挑不出你一点儿毛病。
He meant well, and it was not his fault if he was not quite a gentleman.
他并没有什么恶意，有些事虽说不十分得体，责任也不在他。
He retorted upon me, saying it was all my fault.
他反驳说这全是我的过错。
It's my fault, but there's not a horse about the place that don't lay his ears back when I got on him.
这原是我自己的不足，这儿没有一匹马，我一骑上去，不把耳朵倒垂下来的。
The captain knew there was an engine fault but didn't want to alarm the passengers.
船长知道一台发动机出了故障，不过他不想惊动乘客。
Jeanie Deans, however, found no fault with this display of learning, but on the contrary, admired it.
然而珍妮·迪恩斯不但不怪他卖弄，相反倒很羡慕他的学问。
Don't bear your fault upon her.
不要把责任推给她。
"I have not a fault to find with her person, " he replied.
他回答道：“她的外貌无懈可击。”
Why fasten on me? It's not my fault.
为什么责备我？这不是我的过错。
The fault is his own.
这是他自己的错。
Don't keep after him. It's not his fault.
别责备他，这不是他的过错。
It's your fault. ; You're to blame.
这就是你的不是了。
I have not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world; I should have been continually at fault.
我没有什么品质或者才能来让我活在世上好好做一番事业；很可能我会不断地做错事。
You never know when you are victorious: that is a worse fault.
你们从来不明白自己打了胜仗——这是更大的缺点。
Realizing it was not her fault, the chairman smiled at her to lighten the atmosphere.
董事长意识到这不是好的过错，对她笑了笑来缓和气氛。
Hydraulic pump is the heart of the hydraulic system and its hydraulic system fault diagnosis is an important part of fault diagnosis.
液压泵是液压系统的心脏，其故障诊断是液压系统故障诊断的重要部分。
Students when a child, you will be tolerant of the shortcomings of the child, forgive the fault of the children.
把学生当孩子，你会宽容孩子的缺点，原谅孩子的过失。
On account of characteristic of every part, it designs suitable measure of fault tolerant control for them.
针对各部分故障的特点，为每一部分设计了合适的故障容错控制方法。
Stress builds up in the rock on both sides of the fault and causes the rock to break and shift in an earthquake.
压力在断层两侧的岩石中产生，并且引起岩石在地震中破裂和滑动。
Later we were to discover the exposed face of a second fault in a ravine above the temple.
后来，我们又在神殿上方的一道谷地发现第二条断层的外露面。
They have behaved badly. They have deceived us, they have never been clear. It's their fault that I experienced the worst month of my life.
他们的行为实在恶劣，他们欺骗了大家，他们永远也洗不清恶名。因为他们的过错，我度过了我一生中最糟糕的一个月。
JA : True, Dean has started all this by torturing a lot of souls in Hell. . . You know, according to me that's still Sam's fault !
美人：没错，因为Dean在地狱里折磨其他的灵魂这一切在开始的…不过，对我来说这还是Sam的错！
Then quakes will increase to the point of being considered magnitude 6-7 along the long New Madrid fault line and its attendant splinters.
然后沿着新马德里断层线及其附属断层，地震会增加到预计6-7级。
This broadens the concept of liability in environmental torts, in that it does not require proof of any subjective fault of the polluter.
该规定加大了环境侵权责任的范围，因为这不要求证明污染者存在主观过错。
My partners would give a grunt and nod in a knowing manner, as if I were admitting fault or a deficiency of some kind.
对方就会哦一下点头表示明白了，就好象我是在承认做了件错事或者有什么缺陷似的。
She let me in, and I said the whole thing was my fault.
她让我进了屋，我说整个事情都是我的错。
"Why are you . . . " : to be asking others, think there is no fault of their own, how much force to do much heart.
“为什么你们……”：在责问别人时，想一想自己有没有什么过失，尽了多少力多少心。
'I'm sorry, my friend, ' he said, and his shoulders rose a little to indicate that the misfortune was no fault of his.
“我很抱歉，朋友，”他说，同时他的肩膀微微耸起，表示这不幸并不是他的过错。
It's all my fault. I'll try to make it up to you.
这事儿全怪我。我会尽力补救。
Sometimes a mother fails to be aware of their deeply-beloved children's fault, which leads to a consequence that the children do that again.
做母亲的有时候不能察觉她们所深爱的孩子们的过错.这样做的结果会使孩子们再次犯错。
Environmental tort action should be applied to non-fault liability from the point of view of civil law and economics theory of externality.
不论从民法理论还是经济学外部性理论分析，环境侵权行为都应该适用无过错责任原则。
But it is no fault of yours, I grant. It is just a phase of the contemptible ignorance of the times.
不过，我承认，那不是你的错，而只表现了这个时代可鄙的一面——无知。
The court did not fault the mother's parenting but discounted the brothers' right to live together.
法庭没有认为母亲不称职，但是没有考虑兄弟俩有生活在一起的权利。
The town has two alarm systems that are supposed to alert town staff when a fault occurs, but neither did so Tuesday morning, he said.
个报警系统，预期在发生错误时来警示城市工作人员，但是它们中没有一个在周二早上这样做，他说道。
