1640s, failer, "a failing, deficiency," also "act of failing," from Anglo-French failer, Old French falir "be lacking; not succeed" (see fail (v.)). The verb in Anglo-French used as a noun; ending altered 17c. in English to conform with words in -ure. Meaning "thing or person considered as a failure" is from 1837.
双语例句
1. Failure is never quite so frightening as regret do.
比失败更令人恐惧的是懊悔。
来自金山词霸 每日一句
2. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.--Winston Churchill
成功不是终点，失败也并非末日，最重要的是继续前进的勇气。
来自金山词霸 每日一句
3. It is the easy way out to blame others for our failure.
把我们的失败归罪到别人头上倒是省事。
来自柯林斯例句
4. Those who fail incline to blame the world for their failure.
那些失败者往往将他们的失败归咎于社会。
来自柯林斯例句
5. His six-year transition programme has by no means been a complete failure.
