| 单词 | failing |
| 释义 | failing (feɪlɪŋ ) Word forms: failings 1. countable noun [usually plural, oft with poss] The failings of 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. He had invented an imaginary son, in order to make up for his real son's failings. Synonyms: shortcoming, failure, fault, error 2. failing that phrase You say failing that to 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. Collocations: failing school It was also frankly a failing school before with little motivation and many behavioural problems. Times, Sunday Times (2013) His appointment was a last-ditch effort to rescue the failing school, which was facing closure. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Rescuing a failing school is indeed a challenge. Times, Sunday Times (2008) The papers contain evidence of lazy policing, human failing and official stupidity. The Sun There can be very few accidents that involve no human failing. Times, Sunday Times She approaches human failings in ways that acknowledge evil forthrightly, but also with deep compassion. Christianity Today There are human failings in every profession, and no nurse or doctor should be struck off for a genuine mistake. The Sun They are simple human failings, distortions of memory, the cruel math of fractured hopes. Times, Sunday Times We are naturally disposed - especially in defeat - to condemn an opponent for being 'boring', as if boring were a moral failing. Times, Sunday Times His brand of mistake — moral failing — ushered in drastic consequences: loss, a constant battle with himself, life that will never again be the same. Christianity Today Prisoners are often not like that; but inexperienced and weak doctors are reluctant to recognise it or be 'judgmental', the worst moral failing in the modern world. Times, Sunday Times We tend to put it down to a moral failing. Times, Sunday Times I find it shameful, a genuine moral failing. Times, Sunday Times They soon discovered that the council has 'a history of denial' and reluctance to confront and deal with past failings. Times, Sunday Times No reports into the council's past failings were commissioned, internal or external. Times, Sunday Times The review concluded the force was beginning to address past failings and officers working on the inquiries were 'focused on providing good outcomes'. Times, Sunday Times Police and social services offer the same explanation for past failings - that each incident was treated in isolation. Times, Sunday Times Yet these past failings appear to have been seized on as a licence to tear up the police rulebook in search of high-profile prosecutions to reassure an outraged public. Times, Sunday Times Free people in a free society recognise an opinion as such, and do not try to classify it as a personal failing. Times, Sunday Times Somehow, though, we've turned it into a personal failing. Times, Sunday Times And he will not personally repent for these personal failings in public. Times, Sunday Times I am dealing with my behaviour and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Times, Sunday Times But such personal failings do not explain their behaviour in the past few years. Times, Sunday Times Since her death we've learned of serious failings within the original investigation. Times, Sunday Times (2013) The General Medical Council found him guilty of 'very serious failings'. The Sun (2010) The warning came as MPs published a report highlighting serious failings in the way schools tackle bullying. The Sun (2007) Translations: Chinese: 错误 Japanese: 欠点 |
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