The water supply failed during the drought. 旱災期間供水不足
b. 未達成 (預期的事)
failed in her obligations to the family 她沒有盡到對家庭的責任
5 (力量, 體能) 減弱
The patient's heart failed. 病人的心臟機能變弱
6 停止運轉
The engine failed. 引擎停止運轉
7 破產; 倒閉
Our family business failed in 1929. 我們的家族企業於一九二九年宣告破產
【及物動詞】
1 使失望; 辜負 (期望)
Our sentries failed us. 我們哨兵的表現令人失望
2 拋棄; 遺棄
His strength failed him. 他喪失了力氣
3 遺漏未做
"We must...hold...those horrors up to the light of justice. Otherwise we would fail our inescapable obligation to the victims of Nazism: to remember." (Anthony Lewis) 我們必須將那些慘事交付法律審判. 否則對受到納粹壓迫的犧牲者們, 我們就是沒盡到應盡的責任: 切記.