failings
英 [ˈfeɪlɪŋz]
美 [ˈfeɪlɪŋz]
n. 弱点; 缺点
failing的复数
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 过错;缺陷;不足
Thefailingsof someone or something are their faults or unsatisfactory features.- Like many in Russia, she blamed the country's failings on futile attempts to catch up with the West...
像俄罗斯很多人一样，她认为国家的错误就在于徒然地竭力追赶西方。 - He had invented an imaginary son, in order to make up for his real son's failings.
为了弥补现实中儿子的不足之处，他就想象出了一个儿子。
- Like many in Russia, she blamed the country's failings on futile attempts to catch up with the West...
- PHRASE (引出另一种选择)如果不能的话，万一不行的话
You sayfailing thatto introduce an alternative, in case what you have just said is not possible.- Find someone who will let you talk things through, or failing that, write down your thoughts.
找个能让你把事情说清楚的人，如果不行的话，就把你所想的写下来。
- Find someone who will let you talk things through, or failing that, write down your thoughts.
双语例句
- Destiny: a tyrant's excuse for his own crimes and a fool's excuse for his failings.
命运：暴君为罪行找的借口和愚人为失败找的借口。 - ARMAND: You made me see their failings, Louis.
阿尔芒：你让我看到了他们的失败，路易。 - When you love your job you dont gossip about the personal failings of others.
当你热爱你的工作时，你不会对别人个人的失败品头论足。 - To admit shortcomings and inadequacies is the starting point for solving problems and overcoming weaknesses or failings.
承认我们哪些方面有缺点，哪些方面还不足，这就是解决问题的起点，克服弱点、克服缺点的起点。 - I'm afraid you see so much of your neighbor's failings that you're blind to their virtues.
恐怕是你太注重邻居们地缺点而忽略了他们的优点。 - His failings were largely due to the absence of concepts like mass, velocity, force and temperature.
它的失败主要是因为没有像质量、速度、力和温度这样的概念。 - But we still have many failings.
但是我们的毛病还很多。 - In an unusual gesture for a Chinese official, Mr Hu acknowledged some of these failings.
胡四一承认了这方面的一些不足之处，这种姿态对于中国官员而言颇不寻常。 - He had his failings, but he was basically a good man.
他有缺点，但本质上是一个好人。 - In his resignation speech he blamed his failings on his blood type.
在辞职演说中，他将自己的过失归咎于血型。