| 单词 | at fault |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat fault b. figurative. at fault: puzzled, at a loss. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > confused, at a loss [phrase] at one's wit's end (occasionally ends)1377 seek1390 will of wane (also wone)a1400 will of redea1425 on wild1477 to be at a muse1548 at a loss1592 at a stopa1626 in a fog?c1640 in a wood1659 at a wit-standa1670 at sea1768 at fault1833 far to find, seek1879 1626 H. Wotton Let. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 550 We are..at a fault, in the Hunter's term.] 1833 H. Martineau Loom & Lugger i. v. 87 One's conscience being at fault, an appeal to the law must settle the matter. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast i. 1 My little knowledge of a vessel was all at fault. 1861 T. L. Peacock Gryll Grange ii. 14 There was sufficient diversity in the characters of the rejected to place conjecture at fault. 1886 J. H. Shorthouse Sir Percival iv. 121 The walls and courts..were so full of..relics of the past that the wisest antiquarians were at fault. at fault c. at fault, not equal to the occasion, in the position of having failed.Formerly considered an incorrect use. ‘With still greater impropriety, it is (according to Mr. Fitzedward Hall) frequently employed by American and occasionally by English writers in the sense of “in fault”’ (N.E.D.). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > unsuccessful [phrase] > in the position having failed at fault1876 1876 L. Stephen Hist. Eng. Thought 18th Cent. I. vi. 324 The many difficulties in nature..when made the groundwork of an argument..imply that the creator has been at fault. 1935 Discovery July 206/1 Sometimes it was the glaze..which was at fault. 1947 J. A. E. Mulgan & D. M. Davin Introd. Eng. Lit. xiii. 167 The natural presumption is that it is not his already proved skill that is at fault but rather the nature of the theories. < as lemmas |
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