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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- failing ['feɪlɪŋ]
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1.
n
a weak point; flaw
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2.
prep
[used to express a condition]
in default of
- failing a solution this afternoon, the problem will have to wait until Monday
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1.
n
a weak point; flaw
Examples
- The water supply is failing.
- 水供应不足。 → fail
- Failing some rain soon, the crops will wither.
- 如果不马上下雨，庄稼就会干枯。 → failing
- a human failing
- 人类的弱点 → human
- failing to come up to the mark
- 未达到标准 → mark
- If you don't attend class, I'll be forced to give you a failing grade.
- 如果你不来上课，我只能给你不及格了。 → attend
- They go and read to people whose sight is failing.
- 他们给那些视力衰退的人读书听。 → fail
- the idea of failing filled him with alarm → alarm
- his illness has a lot to do with his failing the exam → have to do with
- failing a solution this afternoon, the problem will have to wait until Monday → failing
- 我眼力不济了。
- My eyesight is failing. → 不济
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