failure/defeat/fiasco/flop.导航词义：失败

1. failure:n. 失败；失败的人，失败的事.指做某事时未能达成目标，也可指不成功的人或事。

Their action ended in failure.

他们的行动以失败而告终。

She felt she was a failure in the others' eyes.

她觉得在别人眼中自己是个失败的人。

His election campaign was a complete failure.

他的竞选活动完全失败。

2. defeat:n. 失败.多指在与某一方的对抗中所遭遇的失败，如在战争、比赛、竞选等中的失利，也可泛指未能做成某事。

a narrow defeat

惜败

The commander admitted defeat in the battle.

指挥官承认此次战役失败了。

3. fiasco:n. 惨败.指让人十分难堪或失望的彻底失败。

His first audition was a fiasco.

他第一次试镜彻底失败。

He hoped that the supper his girlfriend made would not be a fiasco.

他希望女朋友做的晚饭不会完全无法下咽。

4. flop:n. 失败之作.指不受欢迎的产品、电影、戏剧等。

The flop of the novel discouraged the writer.

小说的失败让作者非常沮丧。

The monotonous dialogue made the film a complete flop.

单调的对白使这部电影一败涂地。

全部

1·The plan was doomed to failure.

这个计划注定要失败。《牛津词典》

2·I felt foolish and a failure.

我自觉是个愚蠢的失败者。《牛津词典》

3·Failure can demotivate students.

失败会挫伤学生的积极性。《牛津词典》

4·This policy is doomed to failure.

这项政策注定要失败。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·The play was a miserable failure.

这部话剧是个可悲的失败。《牛津词典》

6·The attempt was doomed to failure.

这项尝试注定失败。《牛津词典》

7·Don't be frightened by failure, son.

不要被失败吓倒了，孩子。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

8·He ascribed his failure to bad luck.

他认为自己的失败是运气不好。《牛津词典》

9·Their plans seemed doomed to failure.

看起来，他们的计划注定要失败。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

10·Their long struggle ended in failure.

他们的长期努力以失败告终。《牛津词典》

失败

1·The attempt was doomed to failure.

这项尝试注定失败。《牛津词典》

2·Don't be frightened by failure, son.

不要被失败吓倒了，孩子。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·This policy is doomed to failure.

这项政策注定要失败。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·He ascribed his failure to bad luck.

他认为自己的失败是运气不好。《牛津词典》

5·The plan was doomed to failure.

这个计划注定要失败。《牛津词典》

故障

1·A signal failure contributed to the crash.

信号灯故障导致了这次撞车事故。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·The breakdown was due to a mechanical failure.

抛锚是机械故障造成的。《牛津词典》

3·A power failure plunged everything into darkness.

电源故障使一切陷入黑暗。《牛津词典》

4·The cause of the crash was given as engine failure.

撞车事故的原因被认定是发动机故障。《牛津词典》

5·The learning paradox is at the heart of productive failure.

学习悖论是“生产性故障”的核心。

衰竭

1·He remained in a critical condition after suffering heart failure.

他患心力衰竭之后一直处于危险状况。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·The mere mention of the words heart failure can conjure up, to the layman, the prospect of imminent death.

一提到“心力衰竭”几个字，外行人就会想到立即死亡。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·Experts say Paris is right: for a sudden heart failure, the single best chance for survival is having someone nearby step in and do CPR quickly.

专家称帕里斯的做法是正确的：对于突发性心力衰竭，最好的办法是周围的人迅速对其进行心肺复苏。

4·Acholic feces may occur with acute liver failure or progression of chronic disease.

急性肝功能衰竭或慢性疾病的进展可能会导致无胆汁粪便。

5·Heart failure led to her father's death.

心力衰竭导致她父亲的死亡。

失败者

1·Everyone wrestles with self-doubt and feels like a failure at times.

人人都会有与不自信作斗争、感觉自己是个失败者的时候。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·You were a total failure if you hadn't married by the time you were about twenty-three.

如果你在二十三岁左右还没结婚，就是一个彻底的失败者。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·Elgar received many honours and much acclaim and yet he often considered himself a failure.

埃尔加获得了很多荣誉和欢呼，但是他常常把自己看成一个失败者。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·I feel like I'm a failure.

我觉得我是个失败者。

5·By now, others were talking about their plants but Ling didn't have a plant, and he felt like a failure.

到现在为止，别人都在谈论他们的植物，但是凌没有植物，他感到自己像个失败者。

失误

1·But the tide of accidents continues to rise because of human failure and an enormous increase in the number of automobiles on the road.

由于人为失误和道路上汽车数量的激增，交通事故的数量还在继续上升。

2·I guarantee you, there will be [a failure] in due course, he said, one that will force a recalibration of the faith people put cloud services for critical data preservation.

“我向你们保证，我们必然会经历[失误]，”他说。这段谈话会强迫人们重新考虑对于云服务的信任，重要的数据保存在上面是否安全。

3·I've come to believe that these failures spring from a single failure: reliance on an overly simplistic view of human nature.

我终于认识到，所有这些失误均来自一个单一的失误，即依赖一种对人性过分简单的认识。

4·Thus when two, or even three, computers were used in space vehicles this redundancy ensure that everything would continue to work in the event of failure or errors.

空间飞行器中安装有两台或甚至三台计算机，这样的冗余性保证了在有失误和错误的情况下一切照旧工作。

5·For example, our interviews uncovered a significant failure in the current process which results in the automated tests running against non-baselined versions of the test database.

举例来说，我们的采访揭开了当前处理过程中的一个重大的失误，它导致了自动化的测试运行在测试数据库的非基线的版本上。

未能

1·He present as an example the failure of the George W. Bush administration to prepare properly for the after-effects of the invasion of Iraq.

他列举了乔治·布什政府的例子，其未能为入侵伊拉克的后续影响做好充分准备。

2·In part, this stress can be attributed to the overlords' failure to adjust to a rapidly expanding economy, but the stress was also due to factors beyond the overlords' control.

在一定程度上，这种压力可以归结为霸主未能适应快速扩张的经济，但这种压力也是由霸主无法控制的因素造成的。

3·Equally important, though, is the failure of DOTS programmes in these two regions to monitor the outcome of treatment for all patients.

然而，同样重要的是在这两个区域直接督导下的短程化疗规划未能监测所有患者的治疗结果。

4·The failure of the defenders of freedom to recognize the basic philosophical issue explains why they have not been successful.

自由的辩护者们未能认识到这个基本的哲学问题，所以他们尚未获得成功。

5·The event channel performs the task of calling the business service and notifying any listeners subscribed to the event channel of the event's successful completion or failure.

事件通道将执行调用业务服务和向订阅事件通道的所有侦听程序通知事件成功完成还是未能完成两项任务。

破产

1·Some may say that the rules should still be bent to prop up bank shares, because Banks rely on confidence and their failure causes systemic damage.

一些人或许会说法令依然应该倾向支撑银行股票。因为银行依靠信心，并且它们的破产引发系统性的破坏。

2·Unquestionably we should not have allowed Banks to become so big and so intertwined that their failure would cause a crisis.

毫无疑问我们不应该允许银行变得太大太复杂，以至于他们的破产会引发危机。

3·He's already moved to limit the hedge-fund boys who profit from failure they themselves help cause.

他已经开始限制对冲基金男孩们，那些人从他们自己协助造成的破产中获利。

4·Indeed, even the failure of AIG would have been catastrophic — so you can't even limit the list of systemically important firms to Banks.

实际上，仅仅是AIG(友邦保险)的破产也会是灾难性的，所以你不能仅把银行归纳成系统性重要的公司。

5·They should instead write rules to contain the damage caused by any failure.

相反，他们应该制定规则，以抑制破产造成的损害。

损坏

1·Losses due failure of containers were large.

容器损坏所造成的损失是大的。

2·That allows them to anticipate and pre-empt the intrusion of water into their Wells, say, or the failure of equipment.

换言之，也就是他们得以未雨绸缪，能预知水侵入他们的水井干扰和一台设备损坏和在此发生前抢先采取行动。

3·Ideally, the locations of the members should be on separate disks so that the failure of one disk does not cause the loss of the entire online redo log.

理论上说，日志文件组的成员的存放位置应该放在磁盘上的不同位置，这样即使一个磁盘损坏也不会导致整个在线重做日志文件丢失。

4·You can perform online tablespace backups, and use these backups to restore a tablespace following media failure.

可以执行在线表空间备份，并且用这些备份来恢复由介质损坏的表空间。

5·The insulation failure is the main accident of networks' equipments, so their detection is of great significance.

绝缘损坏是电力系统设备的主要事故，因此，其设备绝缘的检测具有重大的意义。

(1)failure in…的失败

(1)heart failuren. 心力衰竭

(1)renal failure肾衰竭

(1)failure mechanism破坏机理；失效机理

(1)failure rate[计]故障率；失效率

(1)failure analysis故障分析