failed是什么意思？

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.

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

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).

Laura Chigi, a grandmother at the march, says the local and national governments have failed to do anything about the crowds for decades, because they're only interested in tourism.

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.

One answer, I soon discovered, lay in people's beliefs about why they had failed.

Thomas Edison, the famous inventor, once said "I've not failed."

Unlike the Americans, who felt that the markets knew best, the Europeans failed to anticipate how the markets would react to their endless borrowing.

It failed to protect the interests of American publishers.

I'm sorry to hear that you failed the Physics course, Ted.

She failed to arrive at the airport on time

She failed to get into the supermarket last Saturday.

The woman's company failed to make payments in time.

It failed to arrive at its destination in time.

The man failed to keep his promise.

He failed in his negotiations with the Africans

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

As Vaclav Smil points out, "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

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.

Originally from South America, the snails were accidentally introduced into the Ebro Delta by Global Aquatic Technologies, a company that raised the snails for fresh-water aquariums, but failed to prevent their escape.