fail是什么意思？

Most roads, bridges, transit, water systems, the electric grid, and communications networks were installed 50 to 100 years ago, and they are largely taken for granted until they fail.

Another issue affecting real estate in the coming year will be America's failing infrastructure.

The biggest concern with robots going against human values is that human beings fail to do sufficient testing and they've produced a system that will break some kind of taboo ( ' , 禁忌 ).

States fail when national governments can no longer provide personal security, food security and basic social services such as education and health care.

Indeed, even before the steep climb in grain prices in 2008, the number of failing states was expanding.

In the 20th century the main threat to international security was superpower conflict; today it is failing states.

Failing states are of international concern because they are a source of terrorists, drugs, weapons and refugees ( ' , 难民), threatening political stability everywhere.

The store’s card reader failed to scan the card’s magnetic stripe.

Why do some students give up when they encounter difficulty, whereas others who are no more skilled continue to strive and learn? One answer, I soon discovered, lay in people's beliefs about why they had failed.

They often fail to combine teaching with research.

After failing again and again, most animals give up hope.

Many of its 800 stores are likely to close following the company’s decision to call in administrators after an attempt to sell the business for a token £1 failed.

they often fail to see each other's negative qualities

Kodak's decision to file for bankruptcy（破产）protection is a sad, though not unexpected, turning point for a leading American corporation that pioneered consumer photography and dominated the film market for decades, but ultimately failed to adapt to the digital revolution.

It wasn't that Kodak was blind to the future, said Rebecca Henderson, a professor at Harvard Business School, but rather that it failed to execute on a strategy to confront it

Kodak is an example of a firm that was very much aware that they had to adapt, and spent a lot of money trying to do so, but ultimately failed.

It is harder to predict how Mr Obama's proposed reforms to the failing health-care system will turn out.

The way in which Mr Jobs revived the failing company he had co-founded and turned it into the world's biggest tech firm (bigger even than Bill Gates's Microsoft, the company that had outsmarted Apple so dramatically in the 1980s), sounds like something from a Hollywood movie.

He turned a failing company into a profitable business

For example, one who doesn't know the rules a about plagiarism (剽窃) may accidentally use words or ideas without giving proper credit or one who fails to keep careful research notes may unintentionally fail to quote and cite sources as required.

Cheating undermines confidence and independence: the cheater is a fraud, and knows that without dishonesty, he/she would have failed.

It fails more boys than girls academically

It fails to give boys the attention they need.

He criticized teachers for failing to recognize that boys are actually more emotional than girls.

In the fighting, we not only often fail but can make things worse.

Early models often failed to withstand crashes, however, so in 1965 the device was completely redesigned and moved to the rear of the plane – the area least subject to impact – from its original position in the landing wells (起落架舱).

I'm self-employed and need the Internet for my work, but I'm failing to accomplish my work,to take care of my home, to give attention to my children," she wrote in a message sent to the group.

One of the greatest heartbreaks for fire fighters occurs when they fail to rescue a child from a burning building because the child, frightened by smoke and noise, hides under a bed or in a closet and is later found dead.

Why did Alex fail to receive the warm response he had hoped for?

Mike Ellicock,chief executive of National Numeracy said we want to challenge this "I can't do maths" attitude that is prevalent in the UK, adding that it was vital that all primary school teachers understand key maths concepts as young children who fail t

States fail when national governments can no longer provide personal security, food security and basic social services such as education and healthcare.

Student tutors feel upset when their teachable agents fail, but happy when these virtual pupils succeed as they derive pride and satisfaction from someone else's accomplishment.

The biggest concern with robots going against human values is that human beings fail to do sufficient testing and they've produced a system that will break some kind of taboo.

We need very broad participation to fully address the global tragedy that results when countries fail to take into account the negative impact of their carbon emissions on the rest of the world.

Overly strict standards often fail, James Bartram, a WHO water-health expert, said.

But researchers are improving systems to measure a teacher's performance throughout the year, and, with three years of data, it's usually possible to tell which teachers are failing.

More than 130 U.S.banks failed in 2009.

More than 130 U.S. banks failed in 2009.

A new study has failed to find any conclusive evidence that lifestyle changes can prevent cognitive decline in older adults.

This might not be right, but school-leavers who fail to acknowledge as much risk making the wrong decision about going to university.

Efforts to create one of the world's largest ocean sanctuaries failed because of Russia's obstruction.

They fail to give adequate help to the needy students.

Other initiatives fail to break down the data, too.

It fails to prepare students to face the challenges of modem times.

From the standpoint of a traditional educator, this outcome indicated that schooling had failed to help students think about ecosystems and extinction, major scientific ideas.

Education has failed to lead students to think about major scientific ideas.

All the forecasts, plans, and anticipations cited above have failed so miserably because their authors and promoters thought the transitions they hoped to implement would proceed unlike all previous energy transitions, and that their progress could be accelerated in an unprecedented manner.

"Overly strict standards often fail," James Bartram, a WHO water-health expert, said.

But, he says extreme events become disasters only when people fail to prepare for them.

In a world where people are increasingly dependent on their phones, though, such strategies often fail.

In France, the government has banned supermarkets from throwing away edible foods and imposed harsh penalties on businesses that fail to comply with the regulations.

One of the things that businesses and indeed government organizations often fail to do is to really see what is happening from the consumer's perspective.